RARE bullion SD ‘Sicherheitsdienst’ sleeve diamond for officers with RZM tag

Description

Extremely rare and hard to find SD sleeve diamond in silver bullion thread for officers. The patch looks to be light worn and uniform removed. The original RZM manufacturer label is still present on the back. A genuine patch, executed in silver bullion thread embroidered on a black wool diamond shape patch. Classic SS-style ‘buckram’ backing material.

Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS (Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Established in 1931, the SD was the first Nazi intelligence organization and the Gestapo (formed in 1933) was considered its sister organization through the integration of SS members and operational procedures. The SD was administered as an independent SS office between 1933 and 1939. That year, the SD was transferred over to the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt; RSHA), as one of its seven departments. Its first director, Reinhard Heydrich, intended for the SD to bring every single individual within the Third Reich’s reach under “continuous supervision”.