He signed his Attestation Paper on January 21
including a Heer officer’s breast eagle
Several other flight schools followed over the succeeding decades
He was captured by Soviet forces and remained in Russia as a POW until 1955
These two pictures are dated to 1940
Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Sword Hanger, by Paul Klopfer visually-hidden He signed his Attestation Paper(Luftwaffe Gehnge fr Fliegerschwert). A Luftwaffe Officers sword hanger, of multi piece construction, consisting of blue grey leather panels embroidered with a functional spring clip, looped around an additional ring with a leather loop of identical construction for uniform suspension, bearing a stamped makers mark of PAUL KLOPFER, BERLIN, with a manufacture date of 1939, demonstrating moderate material fatigue to the leather elements, in better than