Germany, RAD. A Rare Set of Generalarbeitsführer Shoulder Boards visually-hidden he was Adolf Hitler's chauffeur

he was Adolf Hitler's chauffeur and bodyguard but received rapid promotion after his participation in the extrajudicial executions of political opponents during the 1934 purge known as the Night of the Long Knives

Puttkamer had been taken over into the Reichsmarine after the war and became an Oberleutnant zu See (Naval Senior Lieutenant) in 1923

all four prongs intact on both

Its primary task was to protect convoys from the German Kriegsmarine's U-boat force

in copper washed aluminum

Germany, RAD. A Rare Set of Generalarbeitsführer Shoulder Boards visually-hidden he was Adolf Hitler's chauffeur(Reichsarbeitsdienst Schulterklappen fr einen Generalarbeitsfhrer). A matching set of Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service RAD) Generalarbeitsfhrer shoulder boards, each constructed of brown doeskin wool with card stock cores and dark green wool underlayers, both topped by a single length of silver aluminum wire piping interspersed with black threaded chevrons, in turn interwoven with dual lengths of gold bullion wire piping, both unmarked and