E-BAN # 200135283760. ANY RED FLAGS?. I DON'T READ GERMAN,

This eBay seller's story does sound convincing.

There is an old saying, buy the item, not the story..

It would be difficult to prove the authenticity of this document and how could you know this is the actual Luft. dagger mentioned in the document?

Here's the rough translation per Babel Fish -

Dear son, I would like you these dolche and some other war memories of admiral Raeder to give and you their history tell, which is an important part of your inheritance. Keep it well. God protects you. A gift for the ice devil While driving of the PQ 17 from Iceland to Murmansk German submarines and the Air Force wanted to implement a devastating blow against the entire escort course of forty ships of the allied ones. Hubert Schmundt, the commander at that time of the submarine units in the arctic, let submarines the ice devil close of the January May EN island patrouillieren. In expectation of the instruction by Hitler to the attack on PQ 17 the submarines were beordert into a better strategic attack position toward Norway. Four German ships ran in the fog on large rock due to and became combat unable. On 3 July 1942, when more closely nebulas and high wave course made the fight more difficult, some torpedoes were fired, which missed their goal however. The allied ships could escape in the bad weather. On 4 July 1942 it came then to combat. Airplanes of the Air Force ascended from northern Norway, attacked ships of the allied ones and sank several. Also the submarines sank several ships, under it British and American freighters. The Air Force could not surely differentiate between the ships of the allied ones and the own submarines and met U-457, a submarine of the type V11. Karl Brandenburg, captain of the U-457, received some after combat a gift to week from the pilot, whose attack would have sunk the U-457 nearly. This gift is the dolch in the photo, which is offered in this auction for the sales. Karl Brandenburg gave this Luftwaffedolch late admiral Erich wheels to the memory to the attack on PQ to 17 in the arctic.


MW

MW
Thank you very much for your time and help.
Terr44

As far as I understand, it's the great-grandson of Admiral Erich Raeder who sells this..
This certified letter regarding the history of the dagger was written by the sellers father.
So, I guess it's as good as any "vet buy" you can find.

Cheers,

Thanks Trigger
That sounds good. But now I have been told about other concerns
#1 seller shows 227 feedback/But only 23 show up.
#2 Has sold all same items/ not over $20.00
#3 He is now selling fore items/ all over$1,400.00.
This form has been a great help. And like I have read so many times, research/research. And I think I will not be buying many items of of E-ban. Thank again all.
Terr44

Terr44,
If you can live with an airforce dagger without such a document, it'll probably be 1000$ less...
This dagger was missing the grip wire.

Might be worth keeping an eye on this seller, see what feedback he gets and what more he might be listing.

Cheers,