TOTENKOPF BEVO CUFF TITLE

This is a German Totenkopf bevo cuff title, high quality bevo, woven cuff titles that rivals the originals in every way. Manufactured using original patterns.

Totenkopf (German word for skull, literally "dead person's head”) was first introduced in the late 1730s under Frederick the Great and utilized on the uniforms of the Prussian Husaren-Regiment Nr. 5.

The skull and crossbones emblem continued to be worn by German stormtroopers on the Western Front in 1918, but perhaps the Totenkopf is best known for its chilling association with the SS and Nazi regimes.

Originally established as Adolf Hitler’s bodyguard unit in the early 1930s, the Schutzstaffel soon adopted the Totenkopf image as the unit’s insignia. 

It became the symbol of the SS-Totenkopfverbande (one of the original three branches of the SS, along with the Algemeine SS and the Waffen SS), whose purpose was to guard the concentration camps. 

Many original members of this organization were later transferred into and became the core of a Waffen SS division, the 3rd SS ‘Totenkopf’ Panzer Division, which engaged in a number of war crimes during World War II.