SS SHOULDER BOARDS UNTERSCHARFUHRER SUBDUED TRESSE INFANTRY

Waffen-SS Unterscharfuhrer NCO shoulder boards made from black wool with subdued tresse. With white piping for: Infantry.

Black wool shoulder boards were also worn by Army Unteroffizier ranks in all services especially Panzer and Armoured units.

Has button hole for uniform attachment and black wool strap

The rank tresse is the subdued version and not the early shiny silver ones. 

The SS used black wool shoulder boards throughout the war changing only the rank tresse.  Rank tresse was sewn onto the edges of the shoulder boards.  The early war tresse was originally shiny silver aluminum but during the war (sometime in 1940) the tresse was changed to a grey or tan colour with a slight green shade. Probably due to the ease of seeing this bright silver tresse the Germans quickly introduced the subdued tresse instead.   

After 1940 both silver and the subdued tresse was worn on the shoulder boards.

Check out our other Waffen SS Shoulder boards of different ranks in all services with different piping Waffenfarbe colours in stock.

The German Army or Infantry known in German as the Heer(Army) forces consisted of the regular armed forces of the German Nazi army from 1935 to 1945.  They were land forces of the Wehrmacht.  During WW2 the Army personnel was made of up of conscripts and volunteers and they total approximately 13.6 million soldiers.