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The tools used to make trench art depended on what the maker could get access to, and would range from a primitive home made engraving pen to a full metal workshop.

Each of the POWs that came from all over the Soviet Union, had been issued a small ID tag, made from a square piece of metal when arriving to one of the large Stammlagers. It was the same concept as with the Wehrmacht EKMs.

I thought I should continue a bit with the "battle damage" theme and show you my collection of canteens and mess kits picked up from

I love finding erkennungsmarke as they are very interesting pieces of history. They have an iconic design and often have different styles of

Some years ago I was bitten by the Beltbuckle bug and began hunting for german belt buckles. The small aluminum and steel squares are great

On my digs I am often finding ashtrays and lighters, and now and then pipes and cigarett mouthpieces. Naturally I like the trench-art

I thought I should share some battle damaged helmets I have collected through the years. Often when you see helmets like this posted online

Over the years I have collected a small pile of such tags which were attached to the soldiers backpack. All of them looks to be "field made"

2024 was a really good metal detecting season. I moved more soil than a large family of groundhogs could manage and brought home half a shed

All this fishing equipment has been found in dumping pits in gebirgsjäger camps during the last couple of years. The field kitchen units

I spent an hour sorting the brushes by color and the cream tubes after brands and ended up with 83 brushes, 49 tubes, 6 toothpowder tins and

2023 was a good year for helmets, many of the lids I dug up were in bad shape, but some had survived very well. Here Im sharing pics of the

A Gebirgsjägers field shower made from a 10l triangular fuel can. The bottom was perforated, a rubber hose attached between the "shower head

Wound Badge and IAB found together. The bent needles hints of an abrupt separation from the uniform they sat on.

I carried many helmets out of the forest in 2022. Some were rusted and deteriorated beyond any hope, but quite a few had survived the eighty

Before October ended the ground had already frozen and closed the digging season. I hoped for a while that we would get a few weeks of mild

Lately Northern Norway has had too warm weather for searching and digging but now rain and cooler temps are on the horizon so prehaps it...

I realized it was a set of homemade earmuffs to wear under the cap or helmet. A really cool find and it is pretty neat that the woolen item

Yesterday I found a small metal tin which had some contents. I knew from its shape and size that it was a Maskenbrille box. Maskenbrille

A little more than a week ago I found a small ditch with two German helmets. They did look a bit rusty but I knew there would be some origin