Earlier units of the mask were manufactured with a rubber harness, while later ones featured a cloth harness to further reduce the manufacturing cost. It has a very unique type of harness, it uses three straps attached with two metal tightening brackets to the rubber or cloth straps attached to the mask itself. To counteract this, the VM40 uses a simple strap and shaped chin rest to provide a tight seal to the user, making it a full-face protective mask. The inserts feature a print indicating the manufacturer (Auer), a number (likely the production year) and the word 'Innenseite' (inside) to show which way to insert them.ĭue to the rubber crisis that Germany faced during the war, helmet-style masks like the VM37 became too costly to produce. The mask came with replaceable anti-fog lens inserts that were fixed into the eye pieces with a simple snap ring. The eye lenses of the VM40 tend to discolour overtime becoming more yellow or red, like other gas masks with cellulose eye pieces from the same period. ![]() The VM40's face piece was made from Buna-S (styrene-butadiene rubber, a synthetic rubber still used and produced to this day) and was colored either dark green or black, with the production stamps located on the lower left and right side of the face piece where the chin would rest when worn. The VM40 is a Second World War civil defense gas mask available for civilians in Nazi Germany. Reichsluftschutzbund (Nazi pre-Civil Defence )
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