Genuine item or repro

[BlackCat1982]

The short answer is that only close family relatives would have access to this information from the Deutsches Dienstelle in Berlin (WaSt).

Normally if the owner of an identity tag became a casualty then the top half stayed with the body and the bottom part was returned to the unit, along with personal effects, eventually the soldiers family might receive this lower portion, but that was not always the case.

Tags were also lost, discarded. So there is no guarantee that because yours is complete that the owner survived or not. Suffice to say that if the death notice and the ID tag were from the same soldier then it would be broken in half, otherwise the fallen soldiers body would be unidentifiable.

Hope that makes sense.

[greatwhite]

Thanks, although the tag displays 160, it is actually the 60th division, a quick wiki search brought this info up.
60th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia

[BlackCat1982]

Thanks, although the tag displays 160, it is actually the 60th division, a quick wiki search brought this info up.
60th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia

Hence my mentioning it in #3.