Germany, Third Reich. A Pair of Belt Buckles Auction Nine and a half weeks

Nine and a half weeks later

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

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

never issued

Germany, Third Reich. A Pair of Belt Buckles Auction Nine and a half weeks(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,