Germany, Third Reich. A Pair of Belt Buckles Auction with two of the postcards

with two of the postcards bearing reverse handwritten inscriptions

demonstrating some tarnishing of the base metal

and pinned with a clutch of gilded bronze oak leaves and acorns topped by an NSDAP-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed swastika of identical construction

very fine) to Gefreiter Karl Hess of 1st Company of Division Füsilier Battalion 371

The troops who found the dead troopers said the spider holes (a military parlance for a type of camouflaged one-man foxhole

Germany, Third Reich. A Pair of Belt Buckles Auction with two of the postcards(Grtelschnallen). A pair of belt buckles, including: 1. An HJ buckle, constructed of nickel plated magnetic steel, the obverse bearing a central raised German national eagle clutching an HJ insignia, set within a ribbed ring bearing an inscription of BLUT UND EHRE (BLOOD AND HONOUR), the reverse with a loop and attachment claws on a functional roller, marked with a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo, a maker code of M4 59 for Adolf Baumeister, Ldenscheid,