Slovakia, I Republic. A Pair Of Eastern Front Trench Art Brass Shells Auction Archive Aufmarsch Gruppe Nordmark badge

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He died in 1941 and is buried in Arlington

on loop for suspension from its period original tri-fold ribbon with hook and loop

The Nazis tried to present Schmeling and Ondra as a German model couple in their propaganda

Slovakia, I Republic. A Pair Of Eastern Front Trench Art Brass Shells Auction Archive Aufmarsch Gruppe Nordmark badgeA pair of Eastern Front trench art brass shells, including one bearing a dimpled cross overlaid by a Slovak style steel helmet, above a date of 1942 and a partially legible inscription, the base displaying the remnants of marks indicating that the shell is of Soviet manufacture, measuring 92 mm (w) x 275 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition, and; one commemorative shell, the exterior fully dimpled, bearing a raised inscription of ZFRONTU 41 45