Wehrmacht bandage package Nr. 1313
Reminder that there’s no fascism without warmongering, and that war inevitably comes with injury to life and limb.
This Verbandpäckchen Nr. 1313 Größe III (“Bandage pack No. 1313 Size III”) of the German Wehrmacht has text set in two weights from Element. The simplified Gotisch was issued by the Bauer foundry in 1933–1934 as one of the first typefaces in the modernized blackletter subgenre that coincided with the early years of the Nazi regime. The notice about the package being “keimfrei, luft-, staub-, wasserdicht” (“sterile, airtight, dust- and waterproof) is set in a less commonly seen lighter weight. Number and size info are in a bold Bodoni.
The bandages were produced by the Verbandstoff- und pharmazeutische Fabrik Ulm-Frankfurt a. M., G. m. b. H. in Ulm-Donau. The shown item was part of remaining stocks of the U.S. Army, from the estate of Cpl. Erich Wick, Army Medical Corps, German Labor Service, 1950.
