Description
196th Infantry Division
this tag was found with hundreds other around the SS barracks and concentration camp Vught in the Netherlands close to the Rocksteady HQ
these tags came from one find of discarted ekm’s(dumped) from soldiers that were most likely put into new units at Vught and got a new dogtag, or were discarded at the end of the war around the battle for shertogenbosch
some of these units fought around Arnhem late war, and many saw battle before or were part of notorious operations on the east front against partizans and in ghetto’s
a historical find in the Netherlands
more info on the Camp which was close to where these tags were found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzogenbusch_concentration_camp