German WW2 Officers Waffen SS M43 Cap by EREL

M43 Waffen SS Officers field cap.

Wool M43 field cap with Officers silver aluminium piping around the crown and two piece officers insignia.

The insignia is different to the standard mans as it is made in silver aluminium thread. 

Insignia has the correct cap skull sewn onto the front and the eagle and swastika on the side. The front skull cap is the larger version of the two cap skull sizes, which was often used when the eagle and swastika badge was sewn on the side.

Made by EREL in Germany.

The Robert Lubstein company is better know by its brand EREL. In WW2 the EREL factory was contracted to make hats for the German military and you can still find original war time hats with the EREL mark inside them today. In fact many reference books show original war time hats made by EREL and in these books you can clearly see the EREL brand marks inside them.

Amazingly the EREL company is still making hats in Germany today! so what is better than having a reproduction German hat made by one of the original hat makers in WW2. These EREL caps are made with high quality fabrics just like the war time hats you cant really have any better.

As these hats are made in Germany, under current German laws they are not allowed to sell them with insignia on them. So we have high quality insignia made and we then have a tailor in the UK to expertly sewn the insignia on.

So with this cap you are getting a high quality hat and high quality badges.