Description
Rarely do quality SS daggers pop up for sale of this caliber. A gorgeous blade with excellent cross grain. The etched logo is just about perfect and is as crisp as they come. Amazingly this example originated with a Röhm dedication, which was factory ground off and removed. Grip seems to be repaired but in good condition otherwise. Intact eagle and SS rune logo. There are minor gaps surrounding the eagle so it may have had a repair but it’s hard to tell if so. Beautiful anodized scabbard. Gruppe III marked on the reverse of the lower crossguard. Lower crossguard is numbered on the inner part by the blade 249711 for SS-Untersturmführer Adolf Bernd. He was assigned to Staff and part of Abschnitt XXXIV. An outstanding example and investment grade. Click HERE to view more images of this item! The Schutzstaffel (SS) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. It began with a small guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz (“Hall Security”) made up of NSDAP volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich. In 1925, Heinrich Himmler joined the unit, which had by then been reformed and given its final name. Under his direction (1929–45) it grew from a small paramilitary formation during the Weimar Republic to one of the most powerful organizations in Nazi Germany. From 1929 until the regime’s collapse in 1945, the SS was the foremost agency of security, surveillance, and terror within Germany and German-occupied Europe. The two main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy of Nazi Germany and general policing, whereas the Waffen-SS consisted of combat units within Nazi Germany’s military. A third component of the SS, the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), ran the concentration camps and extermination camps. Additional subdivisions of the SS included the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) organizations. They were tasked with the detection of actual or potential enemies of the Nazi state, the neutralization of any opposition, policing the German people for their commitment to Nazi ideology, and providing domestic and foreign intelligence. Free shipping ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD & I don’t charge PayPal fees like some of the other guys!
