Germany, Third Reich. A Pair Of Armbands Newly Listed including eighteen Gebetsandenken (Prayer Souvenirs)

including eighteen Gebetsandenken (Prayer Souvenirs)

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

maker marked with the Dr

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

Germany, Third Reich. A Pair Of Armbands Newly Listed including eighteen Gebetsandenken (Prayer Souvenirs)(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