Germany, Feuerschutzpolizei. A 1940 Enlisted Personnel Gaustadt Salzburg Dress Bayonet, By E. & F. Hörster Auction Archive 10 June 1945 GIVEN UNDER

10 June 1945 GIVEN UNDER MY HAND IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON THIS 1st DAY OF March 1949"

Messerschmitt was arrested and charged with crimes against humanity for the use of slave labour in his factories

maker marked “Erha-Wuppertal” in machine embroidery at seam

a Letter From the War Office in London (informing his parents in Johannesburg of their son's award of the Military Cross

1916 with a case of "diarrhoea" but returned to duty on the 13th

Germany, Feuerschutzpolizei. A 1940 Enlisted Personnel Gaustadt Salzburg Dress Bayonet, By E. & F. Hörster Auction Archive 10 June 1945 GIVEN UNDER(Feuerschutzpolizei Bajonett). A well preserved Feuerschutzpolizei (Fire Protection Police) dress bayonet, measuring 355 mm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 200 mm long polished magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and lower edge. A single fuller runs approximately two thirds of the length of each side of the blade. The obverse bears a detailed acid etched inscription of ZUM 25 JHRIGEN DIENSTJUBILUM DIE GAUSTADT