ITD 38

I already wrote here about the Kappenabzeichen of the 38th Honved Division in connection with a photo of it being worn. Then I mainly gave information about the designer, Richard Zutt. Now I present the division’s insignia-decorated Christmas card.

The printers produced many different versions of Christmas and Easter cards. Some of them were decorated with the usual motifs. At Easter, bunnies and male eggs, at Christmas, a decorated pine tree and angels recalled the holiday in the trenches. But there were also many propaganda cards. These featured funny scenes or Easter eggs decorated with the colors of the Central Powers. But there were more combative, sometimes even morbid ones, like the buck of the 83rd infantry regiment that “gifted” a hand grenade instead of a male egg (it’s true that this was probably a unique image, or only a small number of enlargements were made of it).

The insignia of the 38th Division rests on a snowy pine branch, so it shows more of the usual motif.