Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich visually-hidden Everyone would want to wear

Everyone would want to wear something that could show that they were "doing their bit" for the war effort

with a NSDAP Party Badge embedded into the grip portion of the letter opener

with leafing in the background

who was born on 20 April 1904 and joined the NSDAP on 1 December 1929

He returned to HMCS Shearwater in December 1951 and was named C1AR3

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich visually-hidden Everyone would want to wear(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked