Kriegsmarine dagger

Discussion in 'World War 2' started by ferguson73uk, Nov 29, 2007.

  1. ferguson73uk

    ferguson73uk Guest

    I have been given a Kriegsmarine dagger by a family friend this week. On the scabbard is engraved the name 'Zerhusen'. How would I set about finding out who he was?

    Thanks!

    Jonathan
     
  2. Antipodean Andy

    Antipodean Andy New Member

    Golly, the only thing I can think of is a roll of honouor or thereabouts for the Kriegsmarine. No idea where to find one of those!
     
  3. Kyt

    Kyt Άρης

    It is incredibly difficult to get individual details from the German authorities. Even their roll of honour is difficult to use.

    Basically, like for British personnel, I would say that at this time it just has to be accepted that it belonged to a serviceman, and hope that more of the files will be available in the future. But a lot of the German files were destroyed during and just after the war.

    However, if you want to know about the dagger then there are very knowledgable people on Axis History Forum :: Index who could help you with dating it etc
     
  4. spidge

    spidge Active Member

    The urban dictionary has a description of the name which is not too encouraging!

    Urban Dictionary: zerhusen
     
  5. Antipodean Andy

    Antipodean Andy New Member

    Utterly charming!
     
  6. morse1001

    morse1001 Guest

    I seen that as well but did not want to hurt Andyd's feelings!
     
  7. Kyt

    Kyt Άρης

    At school my teacher used to encourage learning a new word a day. I don't think I want to do that anymore!
     
  8. spidge

    spidge Active Member

    Where do they get these words from?
     
  9. morse1001

    morse1001 Guest

    The German sense of humour is based upon toilet humour!
     
  10. Kitty

    Kitty New Member

    ah now i see what you are all on about. when i opened that this morning there was no definition. OK, got it now. Wish I hadn't but I've read it, i can't unread it.
     

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