Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Fritz Zimmermann GTRexclude The first page dedicates the

The first page dedicates the folder

and continued to 1972 by W

suggesting that this Scharführer started his career in the SS as a Unterscharführer

and 5) A Second War German Police Long Service decoration ribbon with miniature

published by The University of Chicago Press of Chicago and London

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Fritz Zimmermann GTRexclude The first page dedicates the(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from