Many german manufacturers of military badges, buttons etc were located in the City of Luedenscheid, British Occupation Area.
There was an intensive cooperation between the british administration and the former "third reich" manufacturers, only some month after the war they startet to produce wartime badges and medals again - as souveniers for the allied soldiers. With the help of the british administration. (That was forbidden by allied control commission !)
Later these manufacturers, amoung them Assmann, got also orders for uniform insigna and buttons to equip units of british, belgian, french and even US-occupation forces.
There are a lot of prime sources in the city-museum of Luedenscheid, also a very nice museum with large displays of buttons and insignias produced in the town, from end of the 19th century until today.
Regards
Markus
Edit: I have a comprehensive book about the insignia and button manufacturers of Luedenscheid at home, will look for more informations about the production for occupation forces this evening ........
Last edited by Markus Bodeux; 31-10-22 at 08:27 AM.
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