Excellent NORDLAND officer's cuffband in very nice condition. Hand-stiched pattern. Ends still sewn together. Full sleeve size. Taken off his uniform. Original black threads remaining.
Condition 1-2
This cuffband goes back to his service time with SS-Regiment "Norland 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.
