Buckle from Stalingrad. Help me identify please.

[Gernika81]

I'm new in the forum so hello to everybody . I don't know if this is the proper place to post this but let's try . I got this belt buckle from Stalingrad purchased from a dealer from Volgograd. Does anybody know to which army this buckle belongs? Maybe it's not from any army... The dealer is a good russian friend of mine, and trustworthy, so it comes from the Stalingrad area, that's for sure. Dug-up by himself. The curiousity is that the star has 6 points and the communist has 5. It's more likely to be a Jewish star, but it's quite weird...

Thanks in advance.
Ricardo.

[schnellmann]

I tend to think if it really was dug in Stalingrad, that it belonged to a Jewish Russian soldier, or perhaps a volunteer. Certainly not German.

[Gernika81]

Thanks for your help schnellmann.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Richardo, it is not a military buckle either German or Soviet. I suspect it is a civillian buckle? But the design does look period for the 1930/'40's.

Cheers, Ade.

[Gernika81]

Many thanks Adrian. Yes, I think it's not a military buckle... The "civilian" option is more likely. A civilian who might have fought in the defense of Stalingrad... Many civilians did so, right?

[Adrian Stevenson]

There were many civillians caught up in the battle. It may well have belonged to one of these.

Cheers, Ade.

[Gernika81]

Thanks for your help Adrian.

Cheers,
Ricardo.