Germany, Ddas. A German Automobile Club Personnel Armband GTRexclude maker marked “Otto Schickle

maker marked “Otto Schickle

surrounded by an exquisitely enameled red ring with motto ""L'UNION FAIT LA FORCE"" (Unity is Strength)

white shows between the litzen

so big that a man could stand upright inside it

The text identifies him as “Commander of a Panzer Regiment in the SS-Panzergrenadier-Division “Totenkopf” (Death’s Head)”

Germany, Ddas. A German Automobile Club Personnel Armband GTRexclude maker marked “Otto Schickle(Der Deutsche Automobil Club Armband). Constructed of black wool, the exterior bearing a German Automobile Club (DDAC) insignia in the form of a central black German national eagle, overlaid by an inscription of D. D. A. C., clutching a ringed mobile swastika, and set within a tri colour border, the insignia measuring 68 mm (w) x 82 mm (h) overall, unstitched and unmarked, measuring 370 mm (l) x 105 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.