Langemarck insignia

Langemarck 'Trifo' collar tab - Dachau made

Langemarck 'Trifo' collar tab for Flemish volunteers of the 6th Sturmbrigade Langemarck and later the 27th SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division Langemarck.

As with other foreign volunteer units, the Germans designed and produced special insignia for these soldiers. The collar tab features an embroidered three-legged swastika, known as Sonnerad" (trident sunwheel) in silver thread on black wool. It also has a nice textbook lightbrown 'buckram' backing. Flemish soldiers of the Langemarck wore these trifos alongside the standard SS runes. These collar tabs almost certainly originate from the SS clothing department at the Dachau concentration camp, liberated in 1945.

Langemarck lion shield - Dachau made

Flemish volunteers were permitted to wear an identifying sleeve shield positioned just below the SS eagle on the upper left sleeve of their uniform. The black woolen shield-shaped base features a machine-embroidered black Flemish lion on a yellow background. These shields almost certainly originate from the SS clothing department at the Dachau concentration camp, liberated in 1945.

This lion shield on the right is an extremely rare uniform removed piece in slightly worn condition. Almost impossible to find an original slightly worn example.

The stitching holes are clearly visible under good lighting, and it appears to have been torn off at the bottom from the tunic. 

SS-BW (Bekleidungswerke) Dachau  

The SS-BW clothing and insignia for the SS was made at Bayreuth, Oranienburg, Posen, Ravensbruck, Dachau and many other labour camps. The clothes they made were stored at the central SS-BW depot at Dachau. During the liberation of Dachau, many SS uniforms, insignia and caps were taken as war souvenirs by U.S. troops. Among this was an abundance of embroidered style enlisted SS collar tabs, including runic tabs, Totenkopf tabs and volunteer tabs for Waffen SS foreign volunteer divisions.