Germany, Third Reich. A Lot of Belt Buckles for Luftwaffe and Labour Personnel Auction Archive exhibiting soiling and cracking at

exhibiting soiling and cracking at its mouth

Wagner’s story is told in detail in Ian Reid’s book “Prisoner at Large” describing the daring escape attempts

who had befriended him when he was about 16 years old

a scroll below inscribed "FIVME d’ITALIA’ (Italian Fiume)

capturing the blockade-running British bark Empress

Germany, Third Reich. A Lot of Belt Buckles for Luftwaffe and Labour Personnel Auction Archive exhibiting soiling and cracking at(Grtelschnallen). A mixed lot of belt buckles, including: 1. A Luftwaffe buckle for Enlisted ranks, constructed of slate grey painted magnetic steel, the obverse bearing a central raised Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, situated within an oval laurel leaf wreath, the reverse with a catch and claws emanating from a functional roller, maker marked with the logo of Hermann Aurich, Dresden, measuring 62 mm (w) x 48 mm (h), in near extremely