Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth United Republic of He signed his Attestation Paper

He signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (57721) with the 20th Infantry Battalion

constructed of fine quality manufacture black and white BeVo style machine embroidery

one of his wife's grave marker

still Single and stating his trade was that of Clerk

and him winding up in a refugee camp in Germany after the war presumably tells the story of a collaborator who chose to flee his home country when the Russians took over and start a new life in the country with which he had sympathised

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth United Republic of He signed his Attestation Paper(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse depicts a frontal battleship cutting through waves, within an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Friedrich Orth, Wien, measuring 44. 17 mm (w) x 57. 40 (h), weighing 26. 7 grams, in near extremely