The story of the collar tab starts in 1967 when I was a sophomore in high school. German stuff was neat and a kid offered me these three items for twenty five bucks. I wanted them for the breast eagle for my cut off jean vest. How cool is that ? Put it on my vest and another kid saw it and wanted that eagle BAD !! So I sold it to him for fifty bucks.
So I had the collar tab which I knew nothing about and the Nordlan ribbon thing that I thought it was a ribbon that went around a hat on a boat named Nordlan. put them away and thirty years went by.
Got into helmets and one day tried to find what they were on the net. Turns out the Nordlan thing was a cuff title for the Nordlan division of the SS. Being mint it was worth around thousand dollars
I looked everywhere for it. I never found it.
So all that was left was the collar tab I had never seen anywhere. Turns out that in 1944 the Germans were short of combat experienced soldiers. So they pulled all combat experienced SS soldiers who were guards at the camps into fighting once again. The replacement guards wore this tab on their collar. Mine appears unissued.
These tabs were all made at Dachau.
I would never sell it. I will not burn or destroy it. I have owned it for 56 years. It "is" and it will remain as such.
