Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Japanese-Made Auxiliary Cruiser Badge Of Oberbootsmann Karlheinz Cares Newly Listed By the successful occupation of

By the successful occupation of Tarawa

DEUMER LÜDENSCHEID" on the reverse

Generalleutnant Max von Viebahn

one year in 1956 and one year in 1957

Footnote: Stalag IV-B was one of the largest prisoner-of-war camps in Germany during the Second War

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Japanese-Made Auxiliary Cruiser Badge Of Oberbootsmann Karlheinz Cares Newly Listed By the successful occupation ofThe Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge comes directly from Cares family, accompanied by a wartime photo and copies of the pages of his Soldbuch. The badge is constructed of silver, obverse depicts central viking longship sailing over a map of the northern hemisphere, within an oval shaped oak leaf wreath, topped with German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, reverse with a wide barrel hinge and flat pinback meeting a round wire catch, marked on