Germany, Hj. A Leader’s Belt Buckle, By Camill Bergmann & Co. GTRexclude with Field Marshal Walter Model

with Field Marshal Walter Model estimated that his seventy-four divisions had the actual strength of just twenty-five

or twenty-eight days' service offshore

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey thread Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika in its talons the reverse is plain

although never mustered in that rank and made Acting Adjutant on January 30

Footnote: The Civil Order of Merit of the Netherlands Lion was instituted on September 29

Germany, Hj. A Leader’s Belt Buckle, By Camill Bergmann & Co. GTRexclude with Field Marshal Walter Model(HJ Grtelschnalle). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse bearing a raised and finely detailed German national eagle clutching a HJ emblem, set within a ribbed ring bearing a raised inscription of BLUT UND EHRE (BLOOD AND HONOUR), the reverse with a clip and swivel attachment claws, the clip marked with a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo and maker code M4 116 for Camill Bergmann & Co., Gablonz, measuring 50 mm in diameter, in extremely fine