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Unread 12-17-2002, 04:57 PM   #20
George Anderson
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I know that the requirement for officers to buy their own equipment predates the First World War. It may have been suspended during the war and probably did not continue with the advent of the Weimar Republic and the forming of the Reichswehr.
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