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

with a silver bullion cord above

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

with a single circular border

with an ulcer in his right leg

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