Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Badges Hold After the Great war

After the Great war

then transferred two months later

a desperate engagement in which the 6th Battalion took heavy casualties - so heavy

The detour through his hometown presumably means that there is in fact no mission and that Matthiessen is just fleeing back home so as to not be captured by Russian forces

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Badges Hold After the Great war(Abzeichen). A mixed lot of badges, including: 1 A Deutsches Jungvolk (DJ) Proficiency Badge, Silver Grade, constructed of a silvered copper alloy, the obverse consisting of a Sig rune, overlaid by a central mobile swastika, situated within a circular ring bearing a raised inscription of FR LEISTUNGEN IM D. J. (FOR MERIT IN THE D. J.), the reverse with a vertical pinback, stamped with an issue number of 330888, marked with a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM)