Late War: Jackboots vs Lowboots

[Marcus]

There has been some offline chatter about the subject of what was the more prevelant type of footwear for our events' time frame of late war 1918...Marchstiefel (Jackboots) or Schnurshue (Lowboots).

There are a couple opinions floating around (I'm sure there are more though) about late war photographic evidence. I'm hoping Herr Wolf and Herr Michaelis bring there conversation here.

[CRMichaelis]

To summarize, it seems that it is often quoted that by 1917-1918 the German army had resorted to low boots and puttees as the norm. My contention, based on photos of the period, is that jackboots stayed standard issue until the end. I did an informal survey of photos of German POW's in 1917-1918 (based on the equipment of their British captors or the fact that their captors were American) and from my observation approximately 2 out of 3 Germans were still wearing the M1866 Marching Boot. I'd like to find some documentation as to boot production, orders relating to issuing low boots/puttees, etc. to back this up.