Germany, Nsdap. A Reich-Level Main Department Leader Armband Auction Archive Offizier 1939 R

Offizier 1939 R

blackened lacquered leather construction Pickelhaube with red brass metal fittings

and it went down in flames

a branch of oak leaves in its beak

He was sent to the US in 1941 to advise on air defence

Germany, Nsdap. A Reich-Level Main Department Leader Armband Auction Archive Offizier 1939 R(NSDAP Leiter eines Amtes Armband). Constructed of red wool, the exterior bordered along both edges with red cotton blended bands bearing machine embroidered gold bullion wire oak leaves, as well as Burgundy red piping indicating Reich level personnel, with a central white cotton blended disc measuring 80 mm in diameter and trimmed with gold bullion wire, bearing a multi piece black mobile swastika similarly highlighted in gold bullion wire, unmarked,