Slightly worn NORDLAND cuffband in very nice condition. Machine-stiched pattern. EM/NCO.
Full sleeve size. Slightly cut to the left side. Taken off his uniform. You can see threads left where it was attached together.
Condition 2. Original attached RZM SS paper tag. Length: 40,5cm
This cuffband goes back to his service time with SS-Regiment "Nordland" from 1940 until 1941 before he was sent to SS-Ers.Btl.5 "Wiking".
SS-Hauptsturmführer Max Pausch was born on 22.4.1894 and served during WW1.
SS number: 54021. NSDAP: 1440350.
1935-1939 - band leader III./SS-Standarte "Germania"
1940-1941 - SS-Regiment "Nordland"
1941-1943 - SS-Ers.Btl. 5 "Wiking"
1944 - serving with a musician in Berlin
1944-1945 serving as Schutzhaftlagerführer of Außenlagers Gusen II
Pausch was a US POW and sentenced to death at the so-called "Dachau / Mauthausen Folgeprozesse" on 22.10.1947. He was hanged on 12.11.1948 in Landesberg prison.
