| #348 MODELL DES AMTES: DINNER PLATE , KNIFE & FORK Price: 80 Euro Shipping Germany: 8 Euro Shipping EU: 19 Euro Unlike the RAD, Army and Luftwaffe, police, SD, Alg. SS , Gestapo, NSDAP ect. did not use distinct, organization-stamped porcelain. They relied on neutral, state-approved standard models, marked Modell des Amtes. Typical Usage Locations: Canteens and mess halls. Offices and administrative buildings. City halls and municipal institutions. Police stations and guardhouses. Training facilities and schools for state organizations. Other institutional or bureaucratic settings The porcelain in the 3rd. Reich was not "just" porcelain. In the 3rd. Reich, porcelain was deliberately used as a designed cultural object, not merely as tableware or decoration. Its form, material, and appearance were intended to communicate values such as hygiene, order, stability, and ideological “purity”. Clean surfaces symbolized not only physical hygiene, but also moral and social order. The material’s appearance aligned with contemporary ideas of “Volksgesundheit” (public health). |