Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich visually-hidden He returned to HMCS Shearwater

He returned to HMCS Shearwater in December 1951 and was named C1AR3

with a NSDAP Party Badge embedded into the grip portion of the letter opener

Everyone would want to wear something that could show that they were "doing their bit" for the war effort

a torch in the left foreground of the illustration with the heading to the right of the torch in red

who was born on 20 April 1904 and joined the NSDAP on 1 December 1929

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich visually-hidden He returned to HMCS Shearwater(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked