Germany, Third Reich. A Veteran’s Funeral Sash, Ek Auction Archive measuring 45 mm x 38

measuring 45 mm x 38 mm

with the majority of the silver-wash worn off

There are three sets of marks on the inside: a Canadian Broad Arrow insignia stamped in black ink on the vertical support patch on the left side

1944 on Heinrich Himmler’s orders

243 field medics and orderlies

Germany, Third Reich. A Veteran’s Funeral Sash, Ek Auction Archive measuring 45 mm x 38(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