Third Reich Life & War, World History

Nazi Assmann & Sohne Ludenscheid Catalog

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A product catalog published in the late 1930s by F.W. Assmann & Söhne, Lüdenscheid i. W., a factory producing "Uniformknöpfe, Orden, Abzeichen, Beschläge, Koppelschlösser und Schnallen", i. e. uniform buttons, insignia, badges, orders, buckles, clasps, etc, in then Nazi Germany. The Company Assmann & Söhne was originally founded in 1826 and became one of the major manufacturers of buttons and buckles during the Second World War. As a uniform accessories supplier for Wehrmacht’s Heer (German Army), Kriegsmarine (German Navy), and Luftwaffe (German Air Force), the Nazi Party’s Sturmabteilung (SA), Schutzstaffel (SS), Hitler-Jugend, and other organizations, as well as the police forces, Deutsche Reichsbahn, etc., it was given the RZM code no. M5/8 by the Reichszeugmeisterei der NSDAP (and LDO no. L/64).