Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield Hold closing with four black bakelite

closing with four black bakelite buttons meeting an equal number of reinforced buttonholes

The remaining two-thirds of the album features fantastic wartime images of Waffen-SS personnel

With a central raised sickle and hammer

1939 / William Jäger) at the lower left

He cleared several other minefields

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield Hold closing with four black bakelite(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner indicating Heer issue, unmarked, the shield measuring 51. 33 mm (w) x 60. 94 mm (h), with oxidation and