Germany, Ss. A Wartime Commemorative Photo Album Hold A Soviet Order of Friendship

A Soviet Order of Friendship of Peoples

A gilded wreath and coat of arms

maker marked "GEMSCO - N

the obverse bearing a raised and silver SA-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Germany, Ss. A Wartime Commemorative Photo Album Hold A Soviet Order of Friendship(Waffen SS Fotoalbum). A fascinating and extremely well preserved Waffen SS members wartime photo album. It is constructed of a heavy card stock binding with a grey canvas twill exterior liner. The cover bears a black ink illustration of a Waffen SS soldier in profile, wearing a Stahlhelm and flanked by an inscription of MEINE DIENSTZEIT (MY SERVICE TIME). The spine is perforated at both the front and back with holes, reinforced with black painted