Measuring 210x146mm, very fine condition with minimal scuffing, some creasing, and light warping.
Footnote 1: August Fritsch was born on February 17, 1925 in Malsch near Karlsruhe (southwest Germany). At the time of him going missing Fischer served in the 8th SS Division “Florian Geyer”. He was last seen on February 12, 1945 in a field hospital in Budapest, Hungary. Here the division was besieged by the Red Army over Christmas of 1944. Since Heise wasn’t able to escape before the siege, presumably he either died during the fighting or became a P.O.W. in a Russian camp, from which many P.O.W.s only returned as late as 1955.
The person looking for him is his mother, Engelberta Fritsch.
Footnote 2: HIAG (Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit der Angehörigen der ehemaligen Waffen-SS = mutual aid association of former Waffen-SS members), founded in 1951, was a veteran’s organisation and lobby group trying to rehabilitate the SS legally, economically, and historically. On a federal level it was disbanded in 1992, yet smaller chapters continued to exist into the 21st century. Especially during its early years the organisation focused its efforts on the Kameraden-Suchdienst (Comrade Search Service), trying to find some 40,000 former SS members that were still missing.