A 1939 Gautag Potsdam Brandenburg badge
which was followed by a transfer to the Receiving Station at the Naval Operating Base in Norfolk
Steurmannsmaat Haarmann was demobilised by the ‘Soldiers & Workers Council’ at Rustringen on 28 November 1918
He was captured by Soviet forces and remained in Russia as a POW until 1955
A Deutsches Jungvolk (DJ) Proficiency Badge
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, Type A with Case, by B.H. Mayer United Republic of A 1939 Gautag Potsdam Brandenburg(Wiederholungsspange 1939 zum Eisernen Kreuz 1. Klasse 1914, 2. Form mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn situated above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a date of 1939 on a pebbled background, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but