Croatia. A Russian Service Badge, C.1944 Buy Now sewn onto left upper arm

sewn onto left upper arm of a tunic

An early third reich NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker’s Party/Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) supporter’s/sympathizers badge

holding the haft firmly in place

Raban’s Gesundheitsblatt (health paper) carries a stamp that places him in the SS Totenkopf unit guarding the KZ Buchenwald

navy blue cotton mesh backer

Croatia. A Russian Service Badge, C.1944 Buy Now sewn onto left upper armCroatia; Silvered aluminum with red lacquered fields, unmarked, 40 mm x 39. 2 mm, horizontal pinback, scattered chipping in the red lacquered fields, near extremely fine. Footnote: This badge was awarded to Croatian officers and men who served on the Russian Front.