Förderndes Mitglied der SS

An Förderndes Mitglied der SS (SS-FM; SS Patron Members) was a member of a Nazi organisation for individuals who did not join the Allgemeine SS (General SS) for active duty, but instead contributed financially to the SS. The SS-FM was organised by the SS Wirtschafts-und Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Economic and Administrative Department), and started in 1926. Members of the SS-FM made monthly payments towards the work of the SS at their local SS headquarters. Each member was issued with a lapel pin and a receipt book. From April 1934, members also received a monthly magazine, entitled FM-Zeitschrift, which was produced by the SS High Command.^[1][2] By 1939, circulation of FM-Zeitschrift was approximately 365,000,^[1] but very few copies of this magazine survive today.^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Steiner, John Michael (1976). Power Politics and Social Change in National Socialist Germany: A Process of Escalation into Mass Destruction. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 230. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Nazi SS Magazine FM-Zeitschrift". USM Books. Archived from the original on 3 May 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5yPE81ldo. Retrieved 3 May 2011.