Germany, Third Reich. A Pair Of Armbands Newly Listed with rzm tag on reverse

with rzm tag on reverse

The detour through his hometown presumably means that there is in fact no mission and that Matthiessen is just fleeing back home so as to not be captured by Russian forces

He had served for two years as a Private (913) with the 5th Regiment

maker marked “Carl Poellarth

the reverse maker marked “BREHMER

Germany, Third Reich. A Pair Of Armbands Newly Listed with rzm tag on reverse(Drittes Reich Armbnder). A pair of armbands, including a Reichsbahn example, constructed of green cotton, the exterior bearing a black ink inscription of REICHSBAHN, topped by a blacked out NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the interior with a further black ink inscription of DEUTSCHE REICHSBAHN and a partially obscured Russian Cyrillic inscription, unmarked, measuring 190 mm (w) x 100 mm (h), in near extremely