Original German Weimar Period Der Stahlhelm 1931 Commemorative Membership Badge - Der Stahlhelmbund MP 44 and an unadorned black Kabuto-Gane

and an unadorned black Kabuto-Gane (Pommel Cap)

It then fought at Nettuno

This is an excellent example of the classic later pattern HJ fahrtenmesser (trip knife)

and unfortunately the front ramrod pipe was knocked off the barrel at some point

One Union officer

Original German Weimar Period Der Stahlhelm 1931 Commemorative Membership Badge - Der Stahlhelmbund MP 44 and an unadorned black Kabuto-GaneOriginal Item: Only One Available. Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten ('The Steel Helmet, League of Front Line Soldiers'), often shortened to Der Stahlhelmbund (The Steel helmet league) was conceived as a national veterans organization by Franz Seldte in November of 1918, and was officially founded on Christmas day of that year. It was mostly comprised of WWI veterans trying to assimilate back into what was then a devastated society. The Stahlhelm