Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Schwerin certificate_of_authenticity with a short leather tab

with a short leather tab with a smooth-finished black upper and brown reverse attached to the roll bar

measuring 345 mm (l) x 215 mm (w)

inscribed “Fideliter & Constanter” (Latin - Faithful and Steadfast) in golden lettering

The accommodation for the POWs was in solid stone buildings

measures 22

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Schwerin certificate_of_authenticity with a short leather tab(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat situated over a hollow void, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN 68, measuring 48. 29 mm (w) x 38. 92 mm (h), weighing 24. 8 grams, a