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MEDALS AND
DECORATIONS
OF HITLER'S
GERMANY
Robin Lumsden
Airlife
England
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Contents
Preface
7
Introduction: 1914-33
9
1. Military Decorations
Senior Military Awards
Meritorious Service Decorations
Campaign Honours and Wound Badges
Arm Shields
Cuff Titles
Campaign Medals
Wound Badges
War Badges
Army and Wqffen-SS War Badges
Navy War Badges
Luftwaffe Qualification and War Badges
Projected Decorations
Non-Portable Awards
Foreign Decorations
Order of Precedence of Militaiy Awards
18
18
29
41
41
44
48
51
52
61
65
71
78
86
88
2. Political and Civil Awards
Political Awards
Civil Awards
Order of Precedence of Political and Civil Awards
89
89
106
140
3. Medal Miscellanea
Ribbons and Miniatures
Cases and Citations
141
141
148
Appendix I: Makers', Designers' and Other Marks
152
Manufacturers' Marks and Code Numbers
152
Designers
159
Other Marks
159
Appendix II: Chronology of Third Reich Awards 160
Appendix III: How Awards Were Won
167
Appendix IV: Where to Obtain Third Reich Decorations 175
Dealers
175
Auction Houses
176
Arms Fair Organisers
176
Appendix V: Price Guide
177
Appendix VI: Post-1945 Reproductions
181
Bibliography
186
Index
187
Preface
A dolf Hitler held power in Germany for only
Where possible, therefore, original examples of the
decorations concerned are illustrated. Genuine
pieces were not always available for photography,
so surviving plates from Dr Doehle's official
wartime archive and representative line drawings
have been employed to fill the gaps in this respect.
The use of pictures of known or suspected repro­
ductions was consciously avoided, as the waters
have already been muddied far too much by the fre­
quent depiction of postwar fakes in modern refer­
ence books.
The orders and decorations covered in the fol­
lowing chapters include the highest honours
which the militaristic and very uniform-dominated
Third Reich could bestow. They were intended to
promote and mirror the grandeur that was Hitler's
Germany in its heyday, before the horrors of the
holocaust. Consequently, it is perhaps not surpris­
ing that their superb quality, striking appearance
and sheer variety have never since been surpassed
in the field of medals and awards.
twelve years, but during that relatively
short period his regime produced the coun-
try's first and only complete range of truly national
orders and decorations. These were destined to
have a significant effect on the design of military
and civil awards in other parts of the world, includ­
ing the United States of America and the Soviet
Union, which unashamedly based some of their
Second World War combat badges on those of the
Third Reich.
This is the first book to cover the subject of Nazi
awards comprehensively and chronologically in a
single volume. The last similar work, Dr Heinrich
Doehle's ground-breaking Die Auszeicbnungen des
Grossdeutschen Reichs (Berlin, 1943) excluded the
1944-5 period, when a vast number of new hon-
ours were created to bolster the flagging morale of
fighting troops and the besieged civilian popula­
tion.
The old adage A picture speaks a thousand
words', however cliched, still holds true. A good
photograph renders unnecessary the excruciating
detail of verbal description which can so easily
soak up valuable space in a volume such as this.
Robin Lumsden
Cairneyhill
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