Germany, Ss. A Ss Armband Archive He was promoted to Squadron

He was promoted to Squadron Leader on February 1

naming his next-of-kin as Jella May Winter

the SS liaison officer on his staff

Cross in GOLD and enamels

The inscirption reads “Im Jahre deutscher Schicksalwende - 1933” (In the year of the turning point of German Destiny - 1933)

Germany, Ss. A Ss Armband Archive He was promoted to Squadron(SS Armband). Of multi piece construction, with a red cotton twill band trimmed with black cotton bands at the top on bottom, with a central white cotton disk, 85 mm in diameter, bearing a woven black mobile swastika, unmarked, measuring 190 mm (w) x 112 mm (h) as folded, minor soiling of the white cotton features but otherwise in better than very fine condition.