Code: 56504
A very nice example of the2 1943/44 pattern, Waffen-SS cuff-title worn by members member of the18. SS Freiwilligen Panzer Grenadier Division “Horst Wessel”
Full length at approximately 48 cms and constructed in the BeVo weave style and depicting the machine-woven Latin script text in silver-grey, the Cuff Title is in very good condition and completely from damage.
The 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division "Horst Wessel" (German: 18. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier-Division "Horst Wessel") was formed in 1944 around a cadre from the 1st SS Infantry Brigade and included mainly ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) from Hungary. The 1st battalion of about 1000 men was attached to SS Division Horst Wessel and sent to Galicia.
It was used for "rear-security" duties until it was sent to the Eastern front, with the exception of one regiment that fought the Slovak National Uprising in August 1944. It later fought as a single unit in Hungary and in Czechoslovakia where it was destroyed.
The Division was named after SA member Horst Wessel, known for being the author of the lyrics to the Nazi Party anthem, the Horst-Wessel-Lied, and glorified by the Nazi regime as a martyr of the party's early years.
