Neat German patch blanket? Souvenirs?

[helmetbuyers]

Hello forum...

I bought this and a few other items last Saturday at an estate sale.

It appears to have been made by a POW? Any way to figure what ever happend to the POW?

Thanks for the help. Robert

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[NickG]

Great item!!!

[Bond]

Very cool and good to see the tropical items on it. Is that a tropical cockade on it?

[NickG]

Trading/obtaining uniform removed patches with other POW's makes sense...
but it does make you wonder how a POW (behind barbed wire) can get hold of unissued insignia?
(Breast eagle, jaeger and edelweiss patches...)

[Bond]

Until I saw the label I had assumed it was a US Vet done item rather than by a POW. The label is a bit odd IMHO.

[Dmv]

Trading/obtaining uniform removed patches with other POW's makes sense...
but it does make you wonder how a POW (behind barbed wire) can get hold of unissued insignia?
(Breast eagle, jaeger and edelweiss patches...)

and also a sewing machine...

[helmetbuyers]

thanks guys for the comments.

any way to figure out where this German soldier was a POW?

Was he a POW in the USA, or overseas in Germany?

POW's in the US had access to all sorts of tools.

I have seen sculptures, plates, paintings, etc. made by POW's sold to the local residents in the states.

Yes, they would have sewing machines in a US/stateside POW camp.

There were hundreds of camps in the US. In fact... one less than 4 miles from my home that held submariners. Robert

some examples of POW made items in the USA below

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Camp-Opelika...p2047675.l2557



http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-WWII...p2047675.l2557