WW2 German - Ukraine M43 edelweiss Field Cap

Description: Made in Ukraine for the reconstruction of historical battles. Please specify the size in centimeters. The mountain cap was the traditional headdress of the Bavarian, Prussian and Austrian mountain riflemen, even during the First World War. They, in turn, adopted the cap from the traditional civilian headdress typical of the Alpine mountaineers. The wearing of the mountain cap in the mountain rifle troops did not cease after the First World War. The standard model known to us from photographs from the fronts of the Second World War was approved around 1930. The cap was made of feldgrau fabric. The lapels, lowered in cold weather, were raised up in warm temperatures and fastened in the front with two buttons 12 mm in diameter each. The buttons were painted pale gray, less often dark brown. Generals had them made of metals imitating gold with platinum. Wooden buttons were less common. Officers and generals wore the imperial eagle and the 1934 model cockade on their kepis. From November 16, 1942, generals were required to wear a golden eagle. Unlike officers' and generals' caps, kepis were not trimmed with silver or gold piping along the crown seam and the edges of the lapels until October 3, 1942. The eagle and cockade were sewn onto the kepis of lower ranks, connected in a T-shaped emblem. From May 2, 1939, a silver edelweiss with golden stamens was worn on the left side of the mountain kepi. Austrians by origin often made a lining of dark green fabric under the edelweiss. During the war, the edelweiss was a dull grey colour with stamens covered with yellow varnish or paint. In 1942, the mountain caps were worn by the newly created Jaeger units, with the Jaeger emblem of three oak leaves worn on the left side of the cap instead of the edelweiss. On 21 August 1944, servicemen of the 1st Ski-Jaeger Brigade were ordered to wear the Jaeger emblem with a crossed ski. As the war progressed, the quality of the material became increasingly worse. With the introduction of the 1943 model cap for all branches of the Armed Forces, the mountain cap lost its significance as a distinctive feature of elite units. True, caps made to order were sometimes made with a traditional visor that was smaller in size than the cap of the 1943 model. The uniqueness of the mountain cap - bergmütze - is that it first served as a prototype for the tropical cap, and then, together with it, for the general-purpose cap of the 1943 model.

Price: 32 USD

Location: PL

End Time: 2024-09-30T13:16:52.000Z

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