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Foonote: In the name of the German Volk I award to the sister of the German Red Cross Margarete Kiesecker in Karlsruhe the Badge of Honour for Caring for the German Volk. Berlin, the 25th of April 1942. 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(Illustrated on page 345 of D. Niemann’s catalogue #3).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFootnote: Adolf Bartels (15 November 1862 – 7 March 1945) was a German journalist and poet. Known for his völkisch worldview, he has been seen as a harbinger of Nazi anti-Semitism. Bartels was born at Wesselburen, in Holstein, and educated at Leipzig and Berlin. An artisan's son, Bartels studied literature. After 1895 a free-lance journalist in Weimar, he gained a reputation as a Hebbel scholar. In 1897 he wrote a history of German literature that was marked by racist evaluations and rabid antisemitism; it became a pioneering work for National Socialist literary reviews. According to Bartels, even authors whose names sounded Jewish, who wrote for the \"Jewish press\", or who were friendly with Jews were \"contaminated with Jewishness\". The noblest task of völkisch cultural policy would therefore be a radical de-Jewing of the arts, and thus the \"salvation of National Socialist Germany\" (German: National-sozialistisches Deutschlands Rettung; 1924). Bartels led a successful campaign to prevent the unveiling of a statue of Heinrich Heine in 1906. After World War One, Bartels' work experienced an upsurge in popularity, with his followers forming the Bartelsbund (Bartels Society) to promote his ideas; the Bartelsbund later merged with Erich Ludendorff's Tannenbergbund group. Bartels' work achieved \"quasi-official\" status in Nazi Germany, and Hitler personally awarded Bartels the Alderschild aawrad, Nazi Germany's highest civilian honor, in 1937. 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After the end of the Second World War, he was tried for war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and executed. Frick was born in the Palatinate municipality of Alsenz, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, the last of four children of Protestant teacher Wilhelm Frick sen. (d. 1918) and his wife Henriette (née Schmidt). He attended the gymnasium in Kaiserslautern, passing his Abitur exams in 1896. He went on studying philology at the University of Munich, but soon after turned to study law in Heidelberg and Berlin, taking the Staatsexamen in 1900, followed by his doctorate the next year. Serving as areferendary since 1900, he joined the Bavarian civil service in 1903, working as an attorney at the Munich Police Department. He was appointed a Bezirksamtassessor in Pirmasens in 1907 and became acting district executive in 1914. Rejected as unfit, Frick did not serve in the First World War. He was promoted to the official rank of a Regierungsassessor and, at his own request, re-assumed his post at the Munich Police Department by 1917. On April 25, 1910, Frick married Elisabetha Emilie Nagel (1890–1978) in Pirmasens. They had two sons and a daughter. The marriage ended in an ugly divorce in 1934. A few weeks later, on March 12th, Frick remarried in Münchberg, to Margarete Schultze-Naumburg (1896–1960), the former wife of the Nazi Reichstag MP Paul Schultze-Naumburg. Margarete gave birth to a son and a daughter. In Munich, Frick witnessed the end of the war and the German Revolution of 1918–1919. He sympathized with Freikorpsparamilitary units fighting against the Bavarian government of Premier Kurt Eisner. Chief of Police Ernst Pöhner introduced him to Adolf Hitler, whom he helped willingly with obtaining permissions to hold political rallies and demonstrations. Elevated to the rank of an Oberamtmann and head of the Kriminalpolizei security service from 1923, he and Pöhner participated in Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch on November 9th. Frick tried to suppress the State Police's operation, wherefore he was arrested and imprisoned, and tried for aiding and abetting high treason by the People's Court in April 1924. After several months in custody, he was given a suspended sentence of 15 months' imprisonment and was dismissed from his police job. Later during the disciplinary proceedings, the dismissal was declared unfair and revoked, on the basis that his treacherous intention had not been proven. Frick went on to work at the Munich social insurance office from 1926 onwards, in the rank of a Regierungsrat 1st class by 1933. In the aftermath of the Putsch, Wilhelm Frick was elected a member of the German Reichstag parliament in the federal election of May 1924. He had been nominated by the National Socialist Freedom Movement, an electoral list of the far-right German Völkisch Freedom Party and the banned Nazi Party. On September 1, 1925, Frick joined the re-established NSDAP. He associated himself with the radical Gregor Strasser, making his name by aggressive anti-democratic and antisemitic Reichstag speeches, and climbing to the post of the Nazi parliamentary group leader (Fraktionsführer) in 1928. On January 23, 1930, Wilhelm Frick was appointed State Minister of the Interior and of Education in the coalition government of Thuringia, being the first Nazi to hold any ministerial-level post in pre-Nazi Germany. He exploited his position to dismiss Communist and Social Democratic officials and to replace them with Nazi Party members, wherefore Thuringia's subsidies were temporarily suspended by Reich Minister Carl Severing. Frick also appointed the eugenicist Hans F. K. Günther, a professor of social anthropology at the University of Jena, banned several newspapers as well as pacifist drama and film performances like All Quiet on the Western Front, based upon the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. He was removed from office by a Social Democratic motion of no confidence in the Thuringian Landtag parliament on April 1, 1931. When Reich president Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor on January 30, 1933, Frick joined his government as Reich Minister of the Interior. Together with Reichstag Speaker Hermann Göring, he was one of only two Nazi Reich Ministers in the original Hitler Cabinet, and the only one who actually had a portfolio, Göring serving as minister without portfolio until May 5th. A mighty rival arose in the establishment of the Propaganda Ministry under Joseph Goebbels on March 13th. Though Frick held a key position, especially in organizing the federal elections of March 1933, he initially had far less power than his counterparts in the rest of Europe. Notably, he had no authority over the police. In Germany, law enforcement has traditionally been a State and local matter. Indeed, the main reason that Hindenburg and Franz von Papen agreed to give the Interior Ministry to the Nazis was that it was almost powerless at the time. Frick's power dramatically increased as a result of the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act of 1933. He was responsible for drafting many of the Gleichschaltung laws that consolidated the Nazi regime. Within a few days of the Enabling Act's passage, Frick helped draft a law appointing Reichskommissare, to disempower the state governments. Under the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich, which converted Germany into a highly centralized state, the newly implemented Reichsstatthalter (state governors) were directly responsible to him. By 1935, he also had sole power to appoint the mayors of all municipalities with populations greater than 100,000 (except for thecity states of Berlin and Hamburg, where Hitler reserved the right to appoint the mayors for himself). In May 1934, he was appointed Prussian State Minister of the Interior under Minister-President Göring. Frick was instrumental in the racial policy of Nazi Germany drafting laws against Jewish citizens, like the \"Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service\" and the notorious Nuremberg Laws in September 1935. Already in July 1933, he had implemented the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring including forced sterilizations, which later culminated in the killings of the Action T4 \"euthansia\" programme supported by his ministry. Frick also took a leading part in Germany's re-armamentin violation of the 1919 Versailles Treaty. He drafted laws introducing universal military conscription and extending the Wehrmacht service law to Austria after the 1938 Anschluss, as well as to the \"Sudetenland\" territories of the First Czechoslovak Republic annexed according to the Munich Agreement. In the summer 1938, Frick was named the patron (Schirmherr) of the Deutsches Turn- und Sportfest in Breslau, a patriotic sports festival attended by Hitler and much of the Nazi leadership. In this event he presided the ceremony of \"handing over\" the new Nazi Reich Sports League (NSRL) standard to Reichssportführer Hans von Tschammer und Osten, marking the further nazification of sports in Germany. On November 11, 1938, Frick promulgated the Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons. From the mid-to-late 1930s, Frick lost favour irreversibly within the Nazi Party after a power struggle involving attempts to resolve the lack of coordination within the Reich government.  For example, in 1933 he tried to restrict the widespread use of \"protective custody\" orders that were used to send people to concentration camps, only to be begged off by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. His power was greatly reduced in 1936, when Hitler named Himmler chief of all German police forces. Although Frick was nominally Himmler's superior, Himmler's appointment as Reich police chief effectively united the police with the SS and made it virtually independent of Frick's control, since the SS was responsible only to Hitler. A long-running power struggle between the two culminated in Frick being replaced by Himmler as Minister of the Interior in 1943. However, he remained in the cabinet as a minister without portfolio. Besides Hitler, he and Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk were the only members of the Third Reich's cabinet to serve continuously from Hitler's appointment as Chancellor until his death.\n\nFrick's replacement as Reich Minister of the Interior did not reduce the growing administrative chaos and infighting between party and state agencies.[11] Frick was then appointed to the ceremonial post of Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Its capital Prague, where Frick used ruthless methods to counter dissent, was one of the last Axis-held cities to fall at the end of World War II in Europe. Frick was arrested and tried before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, where he was the only defendant besides Rudolf Hess who refused to testify on his own behalf. For his role in formulating the Enabling Act as Minister of the Interior, the later Nuremberg Laws (as co-author with Wilhelm Stuckart), that led to people under those laws being sent to German concentration camps, Frick was convicted of planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Frick was also accused of being one of the highest persons responsible for the existence of the concentration camps. Wilhelm Frick was sentenced to death on October 1, 1946, and was hanged on October 16th. Of his execution, journalist Joseph Kingsbury-Smith wrote: \"The sixth man to leave his prison cell and walk with handcuffed wrists to the death house was 69-year-old Wilhelm Frick. He entered the execution chamber at 2.05 a.m., six minutes after Rosenberg had been pronounced dead. He seemed the least steady of any so far and stumbled on the thirteenth step of the gallows. 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Underneath is the logo of the Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise). Whether the Lufthansa Sports Community has any affiliation to the Deutsche Lufthansa AG, the largest German airline, cannot be determined with certainty. 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Above the cog it says “Honour of work” or “Honour to work”. Frey works for Süddeutsche Baubeschläge- \u0026amp; Eisenkonstruktions-Fabrik Franz Blab (Southern German Builder’s Hardware \u0026amp; Iron Construction Manufactory Franz Blab), owned by Friedrich Schröder, in Munich.\nThe badge has been donated by the Bavarian Industry association in Munich on Sep 30th, 1936. 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The document states that HJ boy Jauss (no first name given) won 2nd place in the 100 meter breaststroke competition during the HJ contests of July 16 to 24, 1938 in the region of Hochland (19). It carries a facsimile of Obergebietsführer Emil Klein.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFootnote: Emil Klein (1905–2010) was a national socialist of the first hour. He joined the NSDAP in 1920, the year it was founded, when he was only 14 years old. Two years later, he also joined the SA. Klein took part in the Beer Hall Putsch, after which the party was outlawed. He rejoined in 1925 and got member number 47,014, and became part of the HJ in 1927. He became HJ Obergebietsführer (Senior District Leader) in 1935 and, due to several other offices he held, was seen as the highest ranking Bavarian HJ leader. Between 1939 and 1942, Klein served in the Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98 in Yugoslavia and Russia. 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He joined the Bavarian army as an officer cadet in 1912 and served in the 3rd Infantry Regiment “Prinz Karl von Bayern”. In August of 1914, he was promoted to Lieutenant. Thoma served on both the Western and Eastern front during the First War, being wounded multiple times. In June of 1916, he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order, which meant that he joined the ranks of Bavarian nobility, receiving the title of Ritter (knight). From this day on, he was known as Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThoma ended the war in the rank of Oberleutnant (first lieutenant) and as an American POW, having been captured shortly before the war’s end. After returning home, he was taken over into the Reichswehr, the army of the Weimar Republic. He was promoted to Hauptmann (captain) in 1925. During the early days of the Third Reich, Thoma was promoted to Major in 1934. Later that year, he took command of the 2nd Battalion of Panzer Regiment 4.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Thoma commanded the Panzer unit of the Condor Legion. In August of 1936, he was promoted to Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel). The Germans trained the Spanish fascist troops in the handling of the armoured vehicles. In February of 1937, Thoma commanded his unit during the Battle of Jarama, just south of Madrid. After it was won, he was awarded the Spanish Medalla Militar with Diamonds, as well as the Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords and Diamonds. Thoma was promoted to Oberst (colonel) in 1938. After his return to Germany, he was given command of Panzer Regiment 3 in Vienna.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring the Second War, Thoma saw action in the Polish campaign. He was promoted to Generalmajor (major general) in August of 1940. In the attack on Russia, Thoma commanded the 17th Panzer Brigade. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross on December 31, 1941. Thoma was promoted to Generalleutnant (lieutenant general) in August of 1942. A month later, he took command of the German Afrika Corps and was eventually promoted to General of the Panzer Troops.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThoma was captured by the British during the Second Battle of El Alamein in November of 1942 and became a POW at Trent Park, among other places. Here, he inadvertently gave away the existence of the V-1 and V-2 rocket program. The subsequent bombing of the test site in 1943 severely disrupted progress of German rocket development. After the end of the war, but still in captivity, Thoma had to have one of his legs amputated before he returned home. 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The noblest task of völkisch cultural policy would therefore be a radical de-Jewing of the arts, and thus the \"salvation of National Socialist Germany\" (German: National-sozialistisches Deutschlands Rettung; 1924). Bartels led a successful campaign to prevent the unveiling of a statue of Heinrich Heine in 1906. After World War One, Bartels' work experienced an upsurge in popularity, with his followers forming the Bartelsbund (Bartels Society) to promote his ideas; the Bartelsbund later merged with Erich Ludendorff's Tannenbergbund group. Bartels' work achieved \"quasi-official\" status in Nazi Germany, and Hitler personally awarded Bartels the Alderschild award, Nazi Germany's highest civilian honor, in 1937. 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Measuring 210 mm (w) x 150 mm (h), presenting a folding crease and light creasing and scuffing of the edges, remains near very fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA promotion certificate to Rottenführer for Aviation HJ boy Erwin Nerreter of Flieger-Gefolgschaft 1\/83. Dated to Burg Ludwigstein on 30 January 1943. Measuring 208 mm (w) x 148 mm (h), presenting two folding creases and light scuffing of the edges, remains very fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA swimming exam certificate to 4th grader Erwin Nerretter at Paul von Hindenburg school in Kassel, certifying passing of an advanced swimming test. Dated to 23 August 1939. 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A lot of award documents and correspondence to Ministerialrat (civil servant) Walther Widmann-Mathes, including an award document for a War Merit Cross II Class, constructed of off-white paper stock with multi-coloured ink, dated 1 May 1942 and issue in Berlin, featuring facsimile signatures, measuring 210 mm (w) x 296 mm (h), in near mint condition; an award document for a Civil Service 25 Year Faithful Service Decoration, dated 28 July 1942 and issued in Berlin-Charlottenburg, featuring facsimile signatures, measuring 210 mm (w) x 295 mm (h), in near mint condition; a promotion document, constructed of off-white paper stock with multi-coloured ink, appointing Widmann-Mathes to the rank of Ministerial Director, dated 27 November 1942, featuring a facsimile signature of the Führer and a handwritten signature of Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer, measuring 252 mm (w) x 354 mm (h), in near mint condition; a typewritten letter informing Widmann-Mathes that he has been promoted by order of the Führer and will be elevated to the relevant pay group, dated 1 December 1942 and featuring a handwritten signatures of General Inspector for Water and Energy Günther Schulze-Fielitz, measuring 210 mn (w) x 296 mm (h), in near mint condition, and; a small typewritten note congratulating Widmann-Mathes on a promotion, featuring handwritten signatures and dated 7 December 1942, in near mint condition.\n\n","brand":"eMedals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46131883213077,"sku":"G48576.RL1","price":1620.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/9105\/2053\/files\/c2020_906emd_191_1_1.jpg?v=1761759234"},{"product_id":"germany-third-reich-a-collection-of-documents-to-reich-bank-councillor-ferdinand-koch-g49053","title":"Germany, Third Reich. 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Dated to Berlin on June 3, 1918. Measuring 260 mm (w) x 209 mm (h), presenting light overall creasing, remains near extremely fine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"eMedals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46132159643925,"sku":"G49053","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/9105\/2053\/files\/mnc5947_m20_0316.jpg?v=1692899760"},{"product_id":"germany-third-reich-a-lot-of-award-and-promotion-documents-to-a-single-family-g49658rl1","title":"Germany, Third Reich. A Lot Of Award And Promotion Documents To A Single Family","description":"(Verleihungsurkunden). A lot of five award documents to members of a single family, including a 1938 HJ Trade Competition merit certificate, constructed of off-white paper stock with black ink, named to “BERTA ZIEGLEDER”, for meritorious achievement in clothes-making, featuring facsimile signatures of German Labour Front leader Dr. Robert Ley and Reichsjugendführer Baldur von Schirach, measuring 210 mm (w) x 298 mm (h), in extremely fine condition; a 1939 HJ Trade Competition merit certificate, constructed of off-white paper stock with black ink, named to “BERTA ZIEGLEDER”, for meritorious achievement clothes-making and leatherwork, featuring facsimile signatures of Ley and von Schirach, measuring 212 mm (w) x 296 mm (h), in extremely fine condition; a promotion document, constructed of off-white paper stock with black ink, named to “GEORG ZIEGLEDER”, appointing the recipient to the rank of Reservelokomotivführer with the Reichsbahn, effective 11 May 1943, measuring 250 mm (w) x 355 mm (h), with minor material fatigue evident, in overall extremely fine condition; a Bavarian Sport Shooting Association 25-year membership certificate, constructed of white paper stock with multi-coloured ink, named to “GEORG ZIEGLEDER”, issued on 8 October 1975, measuring 210 mm (w) x 296 mm (h), in extremely fine condition, and; a certificate for an honorary membership of a veteran’s association in Simbach am Inn, Bavaria, constructed of white paper stock with black ink, gilt, and embossments, awarded for exceptional service to the association on 16 April 1977, measuring 240 mm (w) x 320 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.\n\n","brand":"eMedals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46132467302677,"sku":"G49658.RL1","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/9105\/2053\/files\/m20_2791_mnc5312_1.jpg?v=1752863878"},{"product_id":"germany-third-reich-a-fire-brigade-honour-badge-ii-class-award-certificate-1937-g48609rl3","title":"Germany, Third Reich. 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A German Labour Front 25 Year Long Service Certificate To Railway Worker, 1940","description":"The DAF (Deutsche Arbeitsfront = German Labour Front) service certificate is named to Heinrich Stöhr of the Upper Rhine Railway Association in Mannheim for 25 years of service. It is dated to Karlsruhe on May 1, 1940. Measuring 323 mm (w) x 458 mm (h), presenting light scuffing of the edges, remains extremely fine.\n\n","brand":"eMedals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46134810771733,"sku":"G47096.RL2","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/9105\/2053\/files\/m20_678_mnc2100_1_1.jpg?v=1692908240"},{"product_id":"germany-third-reich-a-rare-award-document-for-the-memel-medal-to-reichsminister-wilhelm-frick-m0044-215","title":"Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Award Document For The Memel Medal To Reichsminister Wilhelm Frick","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVerleihungsurkunde zur Memellandmedaille\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). An extremely rare award document for the Memel Medal, constructed off-white paper stock with black ink, named to “REICHSMINISTER WILHELM FRICK”, issued in Berlin on 21 November 1939, featuring an embossed seal and certified by the facsimile signature of Otto Meissner, measuring 21 cm (w) x 29.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFootnote: Wilhelm Frick was born on 12 March 1877 in Alsenz, Germany. After completing studies at the University of Munich and Humboldt University of Berlin, he joined the Bavarian civil service and was employed with the Munich Police, and later held other low-level government positions. His attempts to enlist in the German military during the First World War were rebuffed owing to a lack of fitness. Following Germany’s defeat, Frick sympathized with the anti-communist Freikorps movement and, after an introduction to AH, used his position to secure permits for NSDAP rallies and demonstrations. He participated in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923, and received a suspended sentence after a brief period in custody. Returning to civil service, Frick was elected to the Reichstag in May 1924 after running as a candidate for a party fronting for the now-banned NSDAP. He later rose to Minister of the Interior on 30 January 1933, a post which he would hold for the next decade. He was instrumental in the passage of key legislation of the Third Reich, facilitating the NSDAP’s grip on power and helping to formulate its racial policies, but his career was tempered by a long-running feud with Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Put on trial by the Nuremberg Tribunal, Frick was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, sentenced to death, and executed by hanging on 16 October 1946.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"eMedals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46135945363733,"sku":"M0044-215","price":737.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/9105\/2053\/files\/ai1_6852_1.jpg?v=1773170855"},{"product_id":"germany-daf-a-1943-25-year-meritorious-labour-certificate-to-karl-kiel-g51442rl2","title":"Germany, Daf. A 1943 25-Year Meritorious Labour Certificate To Karl Kiel","description":"(Deutsches Arbeitsfront Ehrenurkunde). A well-preserved Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) 25-Year Meritorious Labour Certificate, constructed of off-white card stock with multi-coloured ink, dedicated to “KARL KIEL”, the director of Preußische Bergswerks- und Hütten A.G. in Bleicherode (a mining equipment firm), issued in Weimar on 6 January 1943 and featuring the handwritten signature of an unidentified DAF Gauobmann, measuring 308 mm (w) x 440 mm (h) and affixed to a sturdy card stock backer, with only minor discolouration and material fatigue evident, in near extremely fine condition.\n","brand":"eMedals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46136244371733,"sku":"G51442.RL2","price":540.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/9105\/2053\/files\/l22_mnc2265_043_1_1.jpg?v=1744638557"},{"product_id":"germany-third-reich-a-lot-of-civilian-and-military-service-documents-m0606-39","title":"Germany, Third Reich. A Lot of Civilian and Military Service Documents","description":"\u003cp\u003e1. A Merchant’s Assistant’s Trades certificate belonging to Miss Lieselotte Augustin, certifying that she has completed her Merchant’s Assistant Trade, including all in-class training, practicum, and all subsequent testing. The certificate certifies that she was born on January 30th, 1923 in Dresden, and she completed her training between April 1st, 1938 and September 30th, 1940 at Petzold \u0026amp; Aulhorn Inc. in Dresden. The certificate is contained in a cloth-bound booklet, measuring 160 mm (w) x 114 mm (l).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. A Reich Labour Service Membership certificate, belonging to Kurt Köge, born on 20.05.1913 in Roggendorf. He served in Gau 15 between April 1st, 1935 and September 30th, 1935. According to the membership certificate, he was a painter by trade and completed his 6 months of service. The certificate bears a picture of Kurt, as well as the signature of his local command, as well as a partial Reich Labour Service stamp. The certificate is constructed of cardstock, and is folded in half, measuring 104 mm (w) x 148 mm (l). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. A temporary German descent certificate, valid until August 31st, 1943, belonging to Walter Beck, born on April 15th, 1916, and living at 2-8 Erika Street in Lemberg. It bears the fingerprints of both index fingers, his signature, a portrait on the reverse, as well as the signature of the district leader and the corresponding official stamp, measuring 165 mm (w) x 108 mm (l), torn in half and held together by a piece of sticky tape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. A DLRG (Deutsche Lebensrettungsgesellschaft\/German Life Saving Association) Lifeguard Qualifying certificate, belonging to Anneliesel Betz, born on May 18th 1913, certifying that she completed the testing to qualify as a lifeguard on March 15th, 1929 in Hamburg. It bears a photograph as well as Anneliesel’s signature. The certificate is constructed of cardstock, and is folded in half, measuring 90 mm (w) x 135 mm (l).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. A Wehrmacht Vehicle Operating Licence belonging to Johann von Garrel, born on February 23rd, 1915 in Westerstede, and serving in the German Marine-Kommando in Italy. It certifies that he is licensed to operate a vehicle of classes 1-3 powered by a combustion engine. It bears a photograph of Johann stapled to the certificate with two staples, and includes a duplicate. The certificate is constructed of wax paper and is folded in half, measuring 99 mm (w) x 139 mm (l). The license is accompanied by the marching orders of the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine. It states that Johann von Garrel is being moved to the German Marine Commando Italy as of February 21st, 1943 to act as a commanding officer. It is written on a typewriter on a piece of standard Kriegsmarine stationary, bearing a Kriegsmarine seal and signature of this superior officer. The letter is folded in half, and measures 104 mm (w) x 148 mm (l).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. A Gold Grade DRL Sports Badge Certificate Booklet belonging to Rudolf Schad, born on December 11th, 1888. It contains a portrait photograph of him, along with his signature and personal information. In the latter pages are the DRL regulations for membership and sports badge qualifications. Pages 12 to 14 show Rudolf’s completed qualifications for eligibility for a Gold Grade Sports Badge. The booklet measures 143 mm (w) x 222 mm (l).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fine grouping of civilian and military service documents, all in used but overall fine to extremely fine condition. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"eMedals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48054663545109,"sku":"M0606-39","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/9105\/2053\/files\/MNC5663.jpg?v=1709843205"},{"product_id":"germany-third-reich-a-pair-of-professional-documents-to-hauptmann-der-reserve-dr-arthur-luttringhaus-with-hermann-goring-signature-m0044-293","title":"Germany, Third Reich. A Pair of Professional Documents to Hauptmann der Reserve Dr. Arthur Lüttringhaus, with Hermann Göring Signature","description":"\u003cp\u003e(\u003cem\u003eUrkunden\u003c\/em\u003e). A pair Third Reich period professional appointment documents, including one named to Dr. (phil.) Arthur Lüttringhaus, nominating him the position of lecturer, issued in Berlin on 18 October 1939, measuring 255 mm (w) x 355 mm (h), with creasing and some discolouration evident, in very fine condition, and; one named to Dr. Arthur Lüttringhaus, appointing him as an Associate Professor with the patronage of the Führer, issued at Führer Headquarters on 28 August 1941 and featuring a facsimile signature of the former alongside a handwritten signature of Generalfeldmarschall Hermann Göring, measuring 255 mm (w) x 355 mm (h), concealed within its period original card stock folio, each demonstrating minor and age-appropriate fatigue and discolouration, in overall very fine condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFootnote: A decorated veteran of the First World War, Dr. Arthur Lüttringhaus was a recipient of the 1914 Iron Cross II Class, the Order of the Zähringer Lion II Class, The Bavarian Royal Order of Merit of St. Michael Merit Cross, and the Bavarian Luitpold Cross for 40 Years in State Service. 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