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Here's a period photo of a very unique uniform type. All the most important details, apart from the GD monogram on the shoulder straps can be seen in this photo. The parade and walking out dress for Infanterie-Regiment Großdeutschland (1935), the cuff title in the first gothic style script. This special cuff was worn only by this regiment, and was known as either the French Cuff or also Neufchâteler Aufschlag, originally worn by the Garde-Schützen-Bataillon (Berlin) of the old army, which was also unique during that period, also worn by the Garde-Maschinengewehr-Abteilung, and no further units. Very few examples have survived.

 

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Other traditional cuff types

Uniform with cuff detail of an officers tunic of the Provinzial-Landwehr-Kavallerie. This has the so-called Polish cuff but with extra elaborate detail of a Hungarian knot and braid. These officers wore this uniform instead of the uniform of the regiment that they were assigned to. The headdress was a helmet as worn by dragoon regiments with gold fittings and a gold coloured Landwehr Cross.

Brandenburgischer Aufschlag, Brandenburg cuff, worn by most infantry regiments and also the Foot Artillery (top right)
The 3 outer edges had a coloured piping depicting which army corps they belonged to, white, blue, yellow or no piping;
bottom left for ranks of Unteroffizier to Vizefeldwebel, a Feldwebel had a second row of Tresse.

Deutscher Aufschlag, also known as the Saxon cuff, left: Infantry, right: Jäger and Schützen,
Jäger-Bataillon 12 and 13 wore white metal buttons, Schützen-Regt. 108 wore copper coloured buttons

Schwedischer Aufschlag, or Swedish cuff, was worn by various other troops, Dragoons, Kürassier, Field Artillery, etc.
From left to right:
Jäger-Bataillon, Feldartillerie, Train-Bataillon (Unteroffizier)

Ungarischer Aufschlag, Hungarian cuff, not really a cuff, but more an application of decorative braid and cord in the Hungarian style to the sleeve,
this style of trim is refered to as "Schoitaschierung", a word of Hungarian origin.

Polnischer Aufschlag or Polish cuff, was worn by all the Ulanen or Lancer Regiments, but also by the Leibgendarmerie and the Feldwachen of each army corps (no illustration yet).

 

 

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      Here's a photo of the full uniform, the photo was taken on the first day of it's introduction.

      Photo from the book German Army Uniforms and Insignia 1933-1945

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Is that the Brian Davis book?

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 Yes Paul, I've had a copy for a good many years now, an interesting book with many good photo's of uniforms.

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One of the books still on my list. I think he probably took much of the info from the original work: 

Uniformen der Wehrmacht by Hettler (ca. 1939)

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