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Strichplatte / graduated range plate (MG mount); reticle (Optics).  TM 30-506, WAR DEPARTMENT TECHNICAL MANUAL, GERMAN-ENGLISH MILITARY DICTIONARY, WAR DEPARTMENT, 20 MAY I944 A Strichplatte (Reticle) range finding scale, measured in mils, with vertical lines extending from 0 in the center to 40 mils to the right and left in increments of 10 mils, was built into the right lens of many German military and naval binoculars. Dienstgläser with the Strichplatte range finding scale were marked in weißer Schrift (white letters) on the right prism cover with “m” or “M” (indicating mils) followed by “H/6400” (indicating that the range finding scale is divided into 6400...

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Aknöpflasche (button tab) — a leather flap, attached by folded tabs and studs through the Dienstglas bridge supports front spindle for attachment to a jacket button to prevent uncontrolled bouncing and swinging, and to keep the Dienstglas from being damaged while the wearer is running. In addition to the leather Trageriemen (carrying strap), a Dienstglas often had a leather Anknöpflasche (button flap) attached, especially the light in weight 6x30s. All Anknöpflaschen were made of leather. Some Anknöpflaschen were marked with a manufacturer mark and year of production, for example, with the “E.LEITZ / WETZLAR” logo and “1939”. More rarely, Anknöpflaschen were marked with a Waffenamtabnahme “WaA” stamp of acceptance by the weapons office. Such markings were either embossed or...

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Kältefettmarkierungen (Cold Resistant Grease Markings) The beginning of World War II in September 1939, and the subsequent shortage of petroleum in Germany, initiated intense interest to develop synthetic petroleum lubricants. The war on the Ostfront between Germany and the Soviet Union prompted an immediate emergency research effort to find alternative lubricants, which led to the first experimentation and manufacture of synthetic petroleum products to be used by the German armed forces. Germany's attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in June 1941 arose from Nazi ideological desire to conquer the western Soviet Union, repopulate it with Germans, seize the oil of the...

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