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    1. first time I try chinese with https://www.deepl.com/translator#zh/en/ 匿踪百年碑成谜——探寻信号山“棣德利碑”遗迹 it seems to work "Hundred Years of Monument Mystery - Exploring the Remains of Signal Hill's "Deidre's Monument Hundreds of years of hiding monument become a mystery - to explore the remains of the Signal Hill "Deidre monument" 2018-12-28 20:41 Signal Hill, 98 metres above sea level, is located in the southern district of Qingdao City, facing Qingdao Bay, is the city's higher elevation of the sea peak. From the top of the hill, the view, Trestle Bridge, Little Qingdao, Welcome Guest House and the blue sea and red tiles and green trees, the front of the sea scenery as far as the eye, Qingdao's beautiful scenery at a glance. At the top of Signal Hill, there are three red spherical buildings of different heights, which symbolise the red torch used to transmit signals in ancient China. On 14 November 1897, Qingdao was captured by Vice Admiral Dietrich Dietrich, commander of the German East Asia Fleet. In the following year, on 14 November 1898, in order to show off his achievements and commemorate Dietrich, a monument commemorating the occupation of Qingdao was constructed on the hillside on the southwestern side of present-day Signal Hill, which was named Dietrich Monument after Dietrich, and named Signal Hill, which was initially known as Dupelo Hill, as Dupelo Hill, which was named Signal Hill, as Dupelo Hill. Signal Hill, which was first called "Duperu Hill", was named "Deidre Hill". In 1899, a signal station (commonly known as the Lookout Tower, which is now a spherical building), a radio station, a generator room and other facilities were built at the top of the hill, and in 1900, it became known as Signal-Berg "Signal Hill". Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
    2. I have seen pics with luftwaffe pilots wearing the "Silber C" on the uniform more than once. of course not at hand when you need an illustration. the badge was and is an award from an international organisation but you get it by your national gliding origanisation on behalf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAI_Gliding_Commission many different qualification badges can be seen on period pics, remember mountain guides with the austrain Heeresbergführer badge instead of the german badge or former czech army soldiers wearing the czech machine gun qualification badge on the wehrmacht uniform.
    3. beside the facts its not possible to see the medals in detail so knowing if they are only copys it makes no sense that someone had Udets medals as they were in 1934. I would say he was using his old medals for making the next medal bar we seeing on the pics with the luftwaffe long service medal last place. I also wonder why he wear his wound badge only on the last pic, its not common. beside the fact the wound badge on this pic looks solid and the one in the frame looks like the cut out version. people want to believe. its maybe startet with the medal bar that had the same combination like Ernst Udet's bar so the one who created the frame was believing to have the right stuff. after changing hands two or three times the fairy tale became more real every time. question is what realy happen with Udet's awards.
    4. Kapitains zur See Hans Langsdorf of the german cruiser Admiral Graf Spee wit a higher class of this award I assume
    5. maybe a pilot for the Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Bachstelze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Achgelis_Fa_330 this would be the right job for such a glider pilot
    6. see this in the net, the man who post it calling this the medals of Ernst Udet being the property of a family friend in the united states. if so it was not the last medal bar of Udet because it miss the luftwaffe service medal. looks like his medals frozen in the year of the lord 1934 what I think is unlikely. he wears also not a black wound badge of WW1, find only one pic were it seems to be ( the last one here). so I would say this is something build together to fool the common militaria collector who is not deep into medals. maybe the medal bar was real with the same combination like udet's own medal bar. I would say its not unique so a second man could have the same combination. what do you think about it?
    7. great, have a special interest in man geting the french legion of honour and the iron cross, thats a combination you see very rare.
    8. yes, looks possible the german wikipedia site have two possibilitys that going to both ends of the ranking list: "The Military Medal (French: Médaille militaire) was established on 22 January 1852 by the President of the Second French Republic, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, and can be awarded to non-commissioned officers and enlisted men of the armed forces who have distinguished themselves through courageous service or have been wounded in battle" so an award for the common man but not for the officer corps but "In special exceptional cases, the Military Medal may be awarded to marshals and commanding generals." so if a french marshal wear it its probably one of the highest decorations at all
    9. Gentleman, see this pic of marshal petain in 1942 and it find my interest because of all the stuff he probably had he is wearing only one small medal here. I have absolute no clue what it can be but think it would have been than a political statement. Can anyone identify this little thing? Sorry, don't become bigger or better in quality.
    10. for the untrained eye the silver oxide on the first 3 medals looks very natural. I don't know how they do it. just touch the silver with the finger and than put it in a box for 6 month or work with some chemicals to get it quicker. suspect the aging on the ribbons is done with coffee or black tea. anyway it looks like it was there for decades.
    11. thank you for your warning like most cases- if its looks to good to be true it is exactly this do you think the Militär-Ehrenzeichen are original or fakes?
    12. gentleman christmas is coming and so I think about a colonial medal bar because ... some of you have maybe seen this: Its the most colonial medal bar possible, imho if you collect german colony's. Maybe not the only one but can't remeber to see a bar with 1. and 2. class together with EK 2 before. Looks to my eyes very harmonius, aging and blur making sense if you look over the bar. cost 700 euro, anyone would see a problems with this medalbar?
    13. pic with first and second class https://www.ebay.de/itm/385513946607?hash=item59c26bfdef:g:NK4AAOSw3wRkJbw4&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAwPT%2BsZlKgF9GF6c2eBkplbyooZCIvZ3P8NJVr6TEvXwXy26isjRGMK%2B86P8cJPJJOsIJI2KbnewBeyt1cm0yXfb0OAtwDjoR%2BEZwPOR4whxY6HRn7LSZrgTDScMA4%2FTteffVD0nYWuwWV1oH4Sp08MrUtuVIY%2FFmFm9Bkrl8pn8D5i5mYYe%2B3C1mssYXkFGQjFC2m9oEW6TuLlYVsVZF%2BXG%2FZK6jEWMXHGNDHubhm%2FTyvFSUTBHZv6oSEbinLi4BIA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6Cd14jsYQ Major Zimmer /Dresden and a medel bar https://www.ebay.de/itm/285210246634?hash=item4267dafdea:g:A24AAOSwlh1kJSk~&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAwL7KZkkUvThsQrx0teBY6dR3av8o9H3Oz46aaoFZBBFZHGasVf8QaEqf4i5yuuvLMQ%2FLJdAQomPJy%2Ft5YmNkA42tZlcXmDQnk%2FSGq5OXxjYzfp6ZToVJvq3MJHEDWBji5lI93qhXCSuED%2Bld690dhpJxVzFZoo14Td7Z8LUZ0Pflkzb8S4QHrFrhfem8H14e0i39O2mAMBi8eRMlB6NaoC0bM4XnK4D9s9i3Z0XyijOpcN5wQOh0tzZa%2F8zBQdYxCg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR5yd14jsYQ another pic with second class https://www.ebay.de/itm/374595119146?hash=item57379be82a:g:W4kAAOSwF81kJYoS&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAwD8xM04ICtLgNZGoIPVoZHcM4GbRD0ro01vOAHIxI4h870xDuZTFs%2FsBm%2BIgJHPFNVk2NhuzxBid2W7GtdfvBgRd6fHTw59AL581s1fAMV53%2BTpaM%2FdcKiaL1MhRG1zYnicWDFKri7zG1Q4Z%2FCLZOHrxpxu40tEwhA8WInfvzkDYNPsI%2FKSjfJA8pEZC2Jmsus9DNBI6NNd%2F%2B1dyJ5HvTPBbG00gdhktVBbJYsanwLEyTfKzaqzDWd8Udn5x7SiXyQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6Kd14jsYQ
    14. https://www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de/nationalsozialismus/groses-nsfk-segelfliegerabzeichen.html
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