Germany, Third Reich. A Veteran’s Funeral Sash, Ek Auction Archive 1944 on Heinrich Himmler’s orders

1944 on Heinrich Himmler’s orders

all on Russian Front

31 mm x 95 mm

which now made him 20 years of age

with the majority of the silver-wash worn off

Germany, Third Reich. A Veteran’s Funeral Sash, Ek Auction Archive 1944 on Heinrich Himmler’s orders(Begrbnis Schrpe). Constructed of red taffeta, each end trimmed with silver grey threaded tassels, one obverse end bearing a black machine embroidered Cross Patte trimmed with silver threading, overlaid with a central silver threaded mobile swastika, measuring 118 mm (w) x 118 mm (h), the opposite stitched with a 110 mm wide white canvas disc, in turn bearing a black mobile swastika, with a black inscription of LETZTER GRU SEINE KAMERADEN (A FINAL