Skip to main content
Help Center Community Shop

German WW2 Waffen-SS Dog Tag?

rslscobra
I need help identifing what I believe to be a German WW2 Dog Tag.

It is in excellent shape and shaped like an egg, but larger.

Has one hole at the top and two holes at the bottom with three approx. 1/2" lined slots in the middle.

One side has "WAFFEN-SS"

The other side has "1./SS.PZ.CR.RT.2.LAH.7

I do have a picture and could email it if necessary or I could send via text message.

Thanks,
Roger
0

Comments

11 comments

Date Votes
  • Horse Plains Drifter
    Third sticky from the bottom(stickies are at the top of the Ask The Eexperts page)tells how to post photos. I for one, and I'm sure many here, would love to see a pic of that.
    0
  • mark christian
    Posting just a single photo would save considerable time and trouble but it certainly sounds like an ID tag from the First SS Panzer Div. The three thin slots along the middle allow the tag (which may be made of aluminum or zinc) to be snapped in half, one portion staying with the body and the other going to the German version of graves registration. Unlike the US Military which issued ID tags showing the name of the individual solider, the German Military used the soldiers service number within his unit rather than his name for identification purposes. These items are very collectable and in nice readable condition can bring $200-$300. The First SS Panzer Div. is well known and would no doubt bring a nice premium.
    0
  • rslscobra
    [img][/img]124yr.jpg[img][/img]
    0
  • rslscobra
    [img][/img]126zw.jpg
    0
  • rslscobra
    [img][/img]125ng.jpg
    0
  • rslscobra
    Hope the pictures help. Just trying to figure out what they are and worth. Thanks for the replies.
    0
  • rslscobra
    Also, appears to be aluminum.
    0
  • Wolf.
    I do not know how you came by this artifact and I do not mean to be pouring water on your fire, so to speak. However, please consider that forgeries of WWII German war memorabilia probably commenced production in 1946.

    There is a huge commerce in counterfeit Nazi items very much like the unbelieveable amount of counterfeit Wells Fargo items. Nazi SS memorabilia is (or was, when I was a kid in Germany) the top of the food chain for collectors, so the fakers would probably start there.

    I do not know who could authenticate this ID tag for you or of any references for this particular item that you could check on your own. But, a thorough Internet search would be where I would start.

    EDIT--EDIT
    RE: rslscobra's next reply...regarding how he came to be in possession of the tag lends to its credibility of being authentic.
    0
  • rslscobra
    Got from my elderly neighbor, whos husband recently passed away. He was not in the war was at the age that they could not take him, but they took his older brothers. So, I believe he got them from one of his brothers. My neighbor said the brother suffered badly from being in war.
    0
  • gary wray
    rslscobra......I see in addition to the possible LAH dogtag that you have a SS rune collar tab. You might want to put that under a black light to see if it is real. If it is that might give more cache to the fact that the SS tag is real also. As mentioned, these have been/are faked all the time so one has to be careful. You might want to run down the units his brothers were in so see if they perhaps were in close combat with LAH. Remember that the war on the Western Front was seen by Hitler as a racial war and he put some of his best SS divisions against US forces, including his bodyguard division, 1stSS LAH considered one of the premier, if not the premier, unit in the German Army. So, you might be able to prove the provenance coming in from another angle. I would agree with Mark that if the tag is the real deal it could bring $200+. Good luck!
    0
  • rslscobra
    gary wray,

    Thanks for the info. I have a black light at work, but how do I tell if it is real when under the black light? Also, will attempt to get more info from my neighbor, but since her husband and his brothers have already passed on, I don't know how much I will be able to get from her, but i'll try.
    0

Please sign in to leave a comment.

Recent Activity