Armband
Armband
Armband

Armband

Object number2017.116.11
Date1935-1945
OriginGermany
MediumFabric; Ink
Credit LineIn memory of Edward Ruglovsky
DescriptionDark yellow fabric Wehrmacht armband. Circular dark yellow fabric sleeve that is rectangular when laid flat. Front has embroidered black German organizational name. Single vertical seam on reverse at center. Front has circular ink stamp in the viewer's top left corner with an eagle at center and German text around the perimeter.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 3.875 x 7 x 0.25 in. (9.8 x 17.8 x 0.6 cm)
InscriptionsFront has embroidered black text "Deutsche / Wehrmacht".

Front has circular ink stamp in the viewer's top left corner with German text around the perimeter that is illegible.
MarksInterior of back has stamped black German text.
Historical NotesPart of a collection of items documenting Edward Ruglovsky’s WWII service in the 10th Infantry Regiment and his industrial career at U. S. Steel. Ed Ruglovksy was with 10th as a combat infantryman from January 1944 through the war’s end, and through the campaigns to take Western Europe – Rhineland, Ardennes, Battle of the Bulge, etc. Ruglovsky said it was “the worst place to be” and that he spent a “year being absolutely terrified.” Some of these things he acquired by trading Russian soldiers for them at the end of the war, which fits with the reality that combat infantryman – while in active combat – were not able to collect and save much, so acquiring items from another soldier at war’s end fits with Ruglovsky’s history of service.
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