Original German Pre-WWII RAD Labor Service Erinnerungen an den Arbeitsdienst Photo Album With 48 Pictures - Unterthingau Labor Camp 1935 German Military Maps It was too heavy for

It was too heavy for regular battlefield use by untrained troops and not suitable for mass production

and the "red diamond" indicates the 1st battalion of the 6th Marine Regiment

which is designed for the addition of scopes

possibly from use in the forests during the last days of WWII

the Kriegsmarine grew rapidly during German naval rearmament in the 1930s

Original German Pre-WWII RAD Labor Service Erinnerungen an den Arbeitsdienst Photo Album With 48 Pictures - Unterthingau Labor Camp 1935 German Military Maps It was too heavy forOriginal Item: One Of A Kind. This is a fantastic photo album of a young German RAD labor service trooper who appears to have been based out of the Unterthingau Labor Camp. Unterthingau is a municipality in the district of Ostallgu in Bavaria in Germany. The album features a lovely RAD insignia which is a silver spade head flanked by two diagonally angled sheaths of wheat. The album contains 48 photos most of which have captions written in white