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    Anyone recognise this Freikorps Certificate?


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    The images are really bad but I would appreciate the collectors here having a look. Does anyone recognise this Freikorps Certificate?

    Thank you
    Pierce

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    Standard Kyffhäuserbund Freikorps Appreciation certificate. This one appears to be for service in Grenzschutz Ost. These were issued in 1937 and signed by SS-Gruppenführer "Reinhard" as Bundesführer of the Deutschen Reichskriegerbundes Kyffhäuser.

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    did they all have original signatures?

    Thanks

    Chris

    ​Some did and some had facsimile signatures.

    Thank you for your replies.

    Just to clarify- this was not actually for a Freikorps decoration but a sort of recognition for past service?

    ​Not for any award because for one thing, there were no Freikorps awards authorized under the Third Reich other than the Silesian Eagle, Baltic Cross and Carinthian Cross.

    These certificates were given as a form of recognition and appreciation to former Freikorps vets from any of the Freikorps units. So, you can for instance see them made out to the Ehrnardt Brigade, Freikorps Epp, Iron Division etc. They are either typed or written by hand. You see them both ways.

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    ​Some did and some had facsimile signatures.

    ​Not for any award because for one thing, there were no Freikorps awards authorized under the Third Reich other than the Silesian Eagle, Baltic Cross and Carinthian Cross.

    These certificates were given as a form of recognition and appreciation to former Freikorps vets from any of the Freikorps units. So, you can for instance see them made out to the Ehrnardt Brigade, Freikorps Epp, Iron Division etc. They are either typed or written by hand. You see them both ways.

    ​Thank you so much. :)

     

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