he was transferred to the 1st Tank Battalion
with the throat fixture retaining a functional spring clip
belt loop strap attached to the clip via a D-ring and marked with the SS rune
a 1937 Düsseldorf Reich’s Exhibition of a Productive People badge
he was assigned as training officer and later as executive officer at the Coast Guard Training Station in Groton
Germany, SS. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Award Document, to Unterscharführer Hans Schnippen GTRexclude he was transferred to the(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Verleihungsurkunde). A small and untouched award grouping to Waffen SS Unterscharfhrer Hans Schnippen, including: 1. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of