German Cigarettetui dug up in Kurland-pocket

[axion9]

HI!
Wonder about this german cigarettetui found in Kurland when I was there a couple of days ago.
Found near a german soldier probably killed by a sniper.
Anyone seen one like this before? What is the mark at the front?
Thanks in forward.
//KJ

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[JOHN JONES]

Looks like a racing or Drivers club crest ?

John.

[Matt Starr]

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[Don D.]

How do you know the soldier was killed by a sniper?

[axion9]

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We think he was killed by a sniper.
The etui was found in the same area, maybe not from this soldier but alot of things were spread around. We did not find all the bones as we think he was eaten by some animals. Will have a thread about this digging soon.
Why a sniper? We found his helmet near the remains and it had a bullet hole in the front.
//kj

[Jean-Loup]

Alpaca is a mark you see on quite a few german WW2 things.
About the bullet hole in the front of the helmet being the sign the soldier was shot by a sniper: .

JL

[Spanish Freiwillige]

Any more pictures of this expedition

[axion9]

Another interesting piece found in the forest, a "home-made" schnappsglass

This is really cool I think.
Made from a shell.
Found in an area were alot of german soldiers surrender.
Heavily searched but after one hour we ended up with only 2 of these and a couple of coins. No medals this time wich we were hoping on.
The latvian guys had been there before with some medal findings.

[axion9]

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small piece but very interesting

[axion9]

Russian propagana

I got this from one of the latvians, he had found them some were in kurland.

[mvm71]

Super stuff, I just love those groud dug expeditions!!!

More pics of the digs would be great!!

Thanks,
Mike

[sunny59]

Nice pictures and a lot of history
Thanks for sharing it