Germany, Third Reich. A Pair Of Armbands Newly Listed Footnote: When World War II

Footnote: When World War II broke out in September 1939

maker marked “Carl Poellarth

surmounted by a royal crown both in gilt

DRK (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz/German Red Cross) Feldmütze constructed of gray wool

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

Germany, Third Reich. A Pair Of Armbands Newly Listed Footnote: When World War II(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