Erkennungsmarke (English)

Erkennungsmarken
(German identity plates)

The Erkennungsmarke is a simple piece of metal, like no other ........
It is the only document that embodies the rot German fighter of WW2.

I say simple? ...... Not as simple as it is ....... For the countless coding marking is such that each plate is unique as each fighter is unique!

The fact of holding a single plate in his hands equivalent to hold the identity of a particular individual.
This is not holding a helmet which is not unique even a camouflage, it's just not hold a belt loop, which it is not either!
That hold, life, the course, the identity of a single soldier!
Throughout the war, The Erkennungsmarke is the only object that the German fighter has never left, even to sleep or wash!

Erkennungsmarke has seen and heard everything ........ Ahhhhhh, if it could talk?
Well this forum is here to talk about is our primary goal.

The Erkennungsmarke appeared from the WW1 in the German army.
On the basis of the Model 16 that the type of Erkennungsmarke is included in a first time by the then Reichwehr by Whermacht.

The erkennungsmarke passion and we are treated in this forum is Erkennungsmarke of WW2.

Cyrial.

Hi:
As I also am fascinated by the Erkennungsmarke.
I have two: One of the RAD and one Artillery Regiment.
If I have a Emark. in hand, I think all the history that is, if the soldier who had died or not, as he died, fighting has been the soldier ....
I would love find me a Erkennungsmarke buried, but Spain is impossible ...
A greeting