..and a view from the other side . The Officer's sword is by Eickhorn and has the SS-runes in a box on the underside of the cross hand guard and atop the scabbard throat. I added the BALKAN arm shield to his sleeve , since from summer 1942 on he served with the Police Volunteer Battalion No. 8 Croatia . There is the notion that this shield was never awarded , however , there is also the account by an SS Officer of the 'Prince Eugen' 7th SS Mountain Troop Division , that he handed out a 100 of these shields to his men in 1945and close to the end of the war .
