Why Were The Nazis So Stylish?

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Why Were The Nazis So Well-Dressed?

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Dec 1, 2023
Smartly pressed and immaculately presented, the Nazis loved their uniforms. For the Nazi mindset, the uniform demonstrated discipline and status and was used as part of the propaganda effort to give their dream of a new, super-Germany a sense of fashion and style. Some embraced this more than others with perhaps the most notable connoisseur of fine clothing being Hermann Goering, the head of the Luftwaffe who was known to have specially tailored, flamboyant uniforms made for himself, but fashion played more of a role in Nazi culture than one might first believe. In this episode we are going to explore the importance and some of the history behind the Nazi obsession with uniforms. Welcome to Wars of the World.

00:00 Introduction
01:11 The Swastika and the Brown Shirts
06:18 My Honour is Loyalty
10:10 Fashion in Nazi Society
16:34 War Uniforms
20:39 Nazi Chic
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Karl Diebitsch | The designer of the infamous black SS uniform

WW2.Militaria
Jun 27, 2022
In this video, I will address the misconception of Hugo Boss's involvement with the uniforms of the Third Reich and instead talk about the life and work of the actual designer of many of the uniforms of the Third Reich, Karl Diebitsch.

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Why Were The NAZIS So Well Dressed?

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This video explores the history and symbolism behind the uniforms of the German military and Nazi organizations like the SS during the 1930s and World War II, but to learn more about how the uniforms were designed and manufactured you'll have to watch the rest of the video.

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Why Were The Nazis So Stylish? // Secret History Revealed

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Chapters:
0:00 - Why Were The Nazis So Stylish?
1:11 - Unification of Germany in 1871
2:05 - World War I Uniforms
3:24 - Rise of The Nazis
4:02 - What Is The SS (Schutzstaffel)
5:41 - Why Is The SS Uniform Stylish?
6:53 - Who Designed The SS Uniform?
9:24 - The Swastika
10:19 - The Schutzstaffel Symbol
11:13 - Who Manufactured The Uniforms
12:45 - Explosion of Media in Germany
13:28 - Joseph Goebbels
13:59 - Leni Riefenstahl
16:18 - Hollywood and Nazis


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Karl Diebitsch | The designer of the infamous black SS uniform

WW2.Militaria
  Jun 27, 2022
In this video, I will address the misconception of Hugo Boss's involvement with the uniforms of the Third Reich and instead talk about the life and work of the actual designer of many of the uniforms of the Third Reich, Karl Diebitsch.
Karl Diebitsch

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Karl Diebitsch

Karl Diebitsch
wearing all-black SS uniform he had designed
Born 3 January 1899
Hanover, German Empire
Died 6 August 1985 (aged 86)
Kreuth, West Germany
Allegiance German Empire
 Nazi Germany
 FRG
Service / branch Schutzstaffel
 Waffen-SS
Years of service 1915–1918
1934–1945
Rank SS-Oberf;hrer
Unit Personal Staff Reichsf;hrer-SS
 SS-Totenkopfverb;nde
 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
Karl Diebitsch (3 January 1899 – 6 August 1985) was an artist and the Schutzstaffel (SS) officer responsible for designing much of the SS regalia during the Nazi era, including the chained SS officer's dagger scabbard. Diebitsch worked with graphic designer Walter Heck to draft the well-known all-black SS uniform. Also with his business partner, industrialist Franz Nagy, Diebitsch began the production of art porcelain at the factory Porzellan Manufaktur Allach.

Life
Diebitsch was born on 3 January 1899, in the city of Hanover, Germany. In Hanover he completed his apprenticeship as a decorating painter after the First World War, because of his enlistment in the Imperial German Navy in 1915. He earned the Iron Cross, Second Class, while with an artillery battery during World War I.[1]

After a short time being employed as a merchant, he resumed his education. Diebitsch enrolled in the Design School of the Academy of Plastic and Graphic Arts in Munich on 29 October 1919.[1]

Joining the Nazi Party
On 1 May 1920, Diebitsch joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP). His membership number was 1,436. From 1920 to 1923 he was a member of the Freikorps (Free Corps). Two years after the Beer Hall Putsch Diebitsch went on to complete his formal art training in 1925, followed by several years of living and working in Munich as a painter and graphic artist. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Diebitsch moved his family to Berlin and there joined the Reichsverband Bildender K;nstler Deutschlands (National Association of German Visual Artists). In 1932, the new all-black SS uniform was designed by Diebitsch with graphic designer Walter Heck.[2] In November 1933 he joined the SS (membership number 141,990), and in 1937 he re-joined the NSDAP, with a membership number of 4,690,956.

Artworks for Nazi Germany

Handle of the Degen (SS), a ceremonial straight saber or smallsword, designed by Diebitsch
Diebitsch served as the director of SS Porzellan Manufaktur Allach in 1936 until the SS enterprise had its porcelain production facility moved to Dachau. In the same year he designed SS dagger and sword parts, along with many other SS items. In 1938 he received one of the top prizes at a House of German Art exhibition in Munich for his painting titled, Mutter (Mother). In 1939 Diebitsch designed the letterhead logo of the Ahnenerbe and crests for SS officers. In May 1939 he designed a window for an exterior wall of the "K;nig-Heinrich" dome at Quedlinburg Abbey. Diebitsch also designed many German postage stamps during the Third Reich.[1] He was given an honorary title of Professor by Adolf Hitler.[1]

He served on the Personal Staff Reichsf;hrer-SS and designed a tapestry that was created by Elsie Seifert.

It was removed from Heinrich Himmler's residence in Berchtesgaden in 1945 by a member of the 506th Parachute Regiment of the American 101st Airborne Division. This piece originally hung in the Reichstag, but was removed to Himmler's residence after a fire which destroyed a similar piece. The construction is of heavy gold bullion thread on a blood red velvet backing. Bullion tassels and chord. Size is approximately 7 x 9 feet.[3]

War years and later life
Besides being an artist, Diebitsch was also a reserve officer in the Waffen-SS during the course of the Second World War. He received staff assignments to the SS-Totenkopfstandarte (SS Death’s Head Regiment), SS-Regiment "Germania", SS-Division "Wiking" and the H;chste SS- und Polizeif;hrer Italien (Highest SS and Police Leader Italy). Diebitsch was finally promoted to the rank of SS-Oberf;hrer (senior colonel) on 20 April 1944. After the war, he was pardoned during the Nuremberg trials. In following years Diebitsch worked as a porcelain painter for the Heinrich & Co factory.[4] He died in 1985.[1]

See also
Allach (concentration camp)
Art of the Third Reich
List of German painters
References
 An honorary title conveyed by Hitler. Johnson, Thomas M., Collecting Edged Weapons of the Third Reich, Volume 6, 1993, pp 78–81.
 McNab, Chris. Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939–45, Osprey 2013, p 90.
 Johnson, Thomas M., World War II German War Booty, Volume II, p 66.
 In 1976, Heinrich Porzellan GmbH in Selb, Bavaria was incorporated into the Villeroy & Boch company association.
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Categories: 1899 births1985 deathsArtists from HanoverRecipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 2nd classSS-Oberf;hrerPeople from the Province of HanoverWaffen-SS personnel20th-century Freikorps personnelImperial German Navy personnel of World War I

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Walter Heck (Grafiker)

Walter Heck war ein deutscher Grafikdesigner, der 1929 das SS-Doppelrunensymbol f;r die Nazi-Schutzstaffel, das SA-Runen-Abzeichen, schuf und 1932 die komplett schwarze SS-Uniform mitgestaltete. Er war Kompaniechef in der Sturmabteilung und trat sp;ter der SS bei.

Heck arbeitete bei Ferdinand Hoffst;tter in Bonn, einer Firma, die Abzeichen herstellte, und „arbeitete in einem Atelier, das sich auf milit;rische Entw;rfe konzentrierte“.[1][2]

Im Jahr 1929 entwarf Heck das SS-Logo, und zwar nicht auf der Grundlage einer alten arisch-germanischen Rune, wie sie von den Nazis mythologisiert wurde, sondern weil er sich von der damals in Deutschland weit verbreiteten Frakturschrift absetzen wollte und au;erdem der Meinung war, dass das im lateinischen Standardalphabet verwendete gro;e „S“ zu weich sei, um die Werte der SS zu repr;sentieren.[3] M;glicherweise wurde er auch von dem Symbol des doppelten Blitzes beeinflusst, das zur Warnung vor einer gef;hrlichen Hochspannung verwendet wird und dem von Heck entworfenen Symbol ;hnelt.[4] F;r seine Arbeit erhielt er 2,5 Reichsmark. Heck war zu dieser Zeit Kompanief;hrer in der Sturmabteilung (SA) und trat sp;ter der SS bei.[5] 1944 war er Obersturmf;hrer.[6]

1944, w;hrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs, wandte sich ein Offizierskollege in Hecks Namen an Heinrich Himmler und bat ihn um eine besondere Ber;cksichtigung Hecks, der f;r seine Entw;rfe des SS-Symbols eine sehr geringe Verg;tung erhalten habe, verarmt war und keine Urheberrechte an dem Entwurf besitze. Himmler antwortete Heck, dass er ihm nach Kriegsende ein Einfamilienhaus mit Garten schenken wolle, dass er aber erwarte, dass er bis dahin eine Familie gegr;ndet und mindestens zwei Kinder habe.[7]

Heck entwarf auch das SA-Runen-Abzeichen, eine Kombination aus einem Runen-S und einem gotischen A, und 1932 entwarf er zusammen mit Karl Diebitsch die ganz schwarze SS-Uniform, nicht, wie oft behauptet wird, Hugo Ferdinand Boss, obwohl dessen gleichnamige Firma, die Hugo Boss AG, sie herstellte.[8]

Weblinks
Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Himmlers SS-Runen folgten bizarren Vorbildern. In: welt.de. 4. M;rz 2017.
Markus Sulzbacher: Wie ein Obskurant aus Wien Runen zu Symbolen der Nazis machte. In: derstandard.de. 5. September 2023.
Anne K;nig: T;dliches Detail. In: deutschlandfunk.de. 18. M;rz 2010.
Einzelnachweise
 Tim Blackmore: Gorgeous War: The Branding War between the Third Reich and the United States. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-77112-422-5 (google.com [abgerufen am 16. Februar 2024]).
 Chris McNab: Hitler’s Elite: The SS 1939-45. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4728-0645-1, S. 90 (google.com [abgerufen am 16. Februar 2024]).
 SS-Obersturmf;hrer Walter Heck, K;ln.- Nachtr;gliche Belohnung f;r den Entwurf des SS-Zivilabzeichens im Jahre 1929 - Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. 9. Juli 2022, abgerufen am 16. Februar 2024.
 Germanen-Wahn: Himmlers SS-Runen folgten bizarren Vorbildern - WELT. 9. Juli 2022, abgerufen am 16. Februar 2024.
 New Images of Nazi Germany: A Photographic Collection. McFarland, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-9090-5, S. 129 (google.com [abgerufen am 16. Februar 2024]).
 Signs Of Evil - The Runes Of The SS | Full Documentary. Abgerufen am 16. Februar 2024 (deutsch).
 Signs Of Evil - The Runes Of The SS | Full Documentary. Abgerufen am 16. Februar 2024 (deutsch).
 Paul R. Bartrop, Eve E. Grimm: Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators. ABC-CLIO, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4408-5897-0, S. 43 (google.com [abgerufen am 16. Februar 2024]).
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Walter Heck

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Walter Heck
Nationality German
Occupation(s) Graphic designer and SA and SS officer
Known for Creating the SS double rune symbol for the Nazi Schutzstaffel

Walter Heck designed the infamous typographic logo for the SS, the elite corps of the Nazi party, in 1929. He put together two lightning bolt-shaped 'Siegrunes', a symbol based on the sig Armanen rune, which in turn was based on the historical sowilo rune.

Walter Heck was a German graphic designer who created the SS double 'Siegrune' symbol for the Schutzstaffel (SS), the elite corps of the Nazi Party, in 1929, the runic emblem of the Sturmabteilung (SA), and co-designed the all-black SS uniform in 1932. He was a company commander in SA, and later joined the SS.

Design of the SS symbol

A page from a uniform booklet published late 1932, where 'SS' (Schutzstaffel) is written in Fraktur script. The image also shows the early SS brown shirt uniform and an early variant of the Nazi elite corps' skull symbol (Totenkopf).

German uniform chart reproduced in an American newspaper in December 1933. At the top, Heck's new SS logo, his runic SA (Sturmabteilung) emblem, and the black SS uniform he designed together with Karl Diebitsch can be seen.
Heck worked for Ferdinand Hoffst;tter in Bonn, a company that made badges, and "worked in a studio focused on military designs."[1][2]

In 1929,[3] Heck designed the SS logo, not based on some ancient Aryan Germanic rune as mythologised by the Nazis, but because he wanted to move away from the Fraktur lettering ubiquitous in Germany at the time and also thought that the capital "S" used in the standard Latin alphabet was too soft to represent the values of the SS. He may also have been influenced by the double lightning bolt symbol used to warn people of a dangerous high voltage which is similar to the symbol that Heck designed.[4] He was paid 2.5 ;;;; for his work (about $2).[2][4][5] At the time, Heck was a company commander in the Sturmabteilung (SA), and would later join the SS.[5] By 1944 he was an Obersturmf;hrer.[6]

In 1944, during the Second World War, a fellow officer wrote to Heinrich Himmler on Heck's behalf asking for some special consideration for Heck on account of the very small payment he had received for his design work on the SS symbol, and the fact that he was impoverished and had not retained any copyright on the design. Himmler wrote to Heck in response to say that, after the war was over, he intended to give Heck a family home with a garden but that he expected him to have started a family and have at least two children by then.[6]

Other designs
Heck also designed the SA-Runes badge, a combination of a runic S and a Gothic A,[2] and in 1932, with Karl Diebitsch, he designed the all-black SS uniform, not Hugo Boss as is often stated, although Boss's eponymous company, Hugo Boss AG, did manufacture them.[7]

Legacy
In 2017, the German television channel ZDFinfo released a 50-minute documentary Signs of Evil – The Runes of the SS from Silke Potthoff, which explored the history of the "SS" symbol and Heck's role in its design.[4]

References
 Blackmore, Tim (2019). Gorgeous War: The Branding War Between the Third Reich and the United States. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 211. ISBN 9781771124225. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
 McNab, Chris (2013). Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939-45. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 90. ISBN 9781472806451. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
 "SS-Obersturmf;hrer Walter Heck, K;ln.- Nachtr;gliche Belohnung f;r den Entwurf des SS-Zivilabzeichens im Jahre 1929 - Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek". www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de (in German). Archived from the original on 9 July 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
 Kellerhoff, Sven Felix (4 March 2017). "Himmlers SS-Runen folgten bizarren Vorbildern". Die Welt. Archived from the original on 9 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
 Garson, Paul (2012). "Non-uniform uniformity - the German soldier". New Images of Nazi Germany A Photographic Collection. Jefferson: McFarland, Incorporated. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-7864-6966-6. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
 Signs of Evil – The Runes of the SS, ZDF Info, 2016. 22.15.
 Bartrop, Paul R; Grimm, Eve E (2019). Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators. p. 43. ISBN 9781440858970. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
Further reading
"Norse Mythology and Nazi Propaganda – The Cross Section". Crosssection.GNS.wisc.edu.
Categories: German graphic designersSturmabteilung officersSS-Obersturmbannf;hrerGerman military personnel of World War II

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