Germany, Third Reich. A Veteran’s Funeral Sash, Ek Auction Archive maker marked "KARNET KYSELY PRAHA"

maker marked "KARNET KYSELY PRAHA" on the reverse cartouche

By the end of the war some members had become child soldiers to fend off allied advances as a desperate last resort

maker marked "JOH

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Germany, Third Reich. A Veteran’s Funeral Sash, Ek Auction Archive maker marked "KARNET KYSELY PRAHA"(Begrbnis Schrpe). Constructed of red taffeta, each end trimmed with silver grey threaded tassels, one obverse end bearing a black machine embroidered Cross Patte trimmed with silver threading, overlaid with a central silver threaded mobile swastika, measuring 118 mm (w) x 118 mm (h), the opposite stitched with a 110 mm wide white canvas disc, in turn bearing a black mobile swastika, with a black inscription of LETZTER GRU SEINE KAMERADEN (A FINAL