NSDAP Medal/Ribbon Bars

[CRBeery]

I forgot this one. I did not buy it for the NSDAP awards. The third ribbon under close inspection is the Danzig cross. A rare one to find. I think the original owner had a very short left leg so he should be easy to spot in photos!

[TerryG]

This is all I can manage in the ribbon bar section...

[Stogieman]

heh, heh, heh.......

[Stogieman]

a little closer, my pretty!

[Stogieman]

and the reverse:

[landsknechte]

heh, heh, heh.......

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Go ahead... Rub it in.

[Stogieman]

No rubbing....... just really proud to have handled one of less than a dozen known originals, worldwide!

[CRBeery]

Another set from me. They did not come together. The medal bar came from one of my bad sources that turns up a keeper a couple of times a year. I think the ribbon bar is from Stogieman.

[Scowen]

Posted for War Lord

[landsknechte]

Posted for War Lord

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Interesting variant on the standard ribbon there on that one on the far left...

[Stogieman]

Well, that's only the second cased 25 Year I've seen. Rather awesome!

[Bob Hunter]

Egads, Rick! If ever you find you cannot live with those wretchedly untraceable bars please email me...

Very cool Stogie, very cool!

Edited August 6, 2005 by Bob Hunter

[Paul R]

Here is the only one I have... It seems as if they are out of order.

Paul

[CRBeery]

Updating my picture with one from the new camera!

[J Temple-West]

A small addition to the collection...

KvK 2nd class with swords.

NSDAP 15 year service.

NSDAP 10 year service.

Commemorative '13th March, Austria medal'.

Westwall medal.

[Guest Rick Research]

A late (1942+) example of the early stripes-proportions-not-right EK 1939 ribbon, usually seen on 1940 ribbon bars:

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[Paul R]

Nice bar Rick! Civilian with EK2?

Paul

[Guest Rick Research]

One thing about the NSDAP long services is you never know WHAT the wearer was. Other long services equate to "the longer the service, the higher the rank" but that was not true at all of Nazi Party functionaries.

The guy above could have been an Allgemeine SS officer with a much lower Waffen SS Reserve rank. He could have been an SA noncommissioned officer called into the army as a Gefreiter. Since NSDAP awards like these could be worn with any uniform, he could have been...

almost anything!

Here is a good example:

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This old Old Fighter has NSDAP 15 and 10, what was probably a Prussian long service award (blank dark blue ribbon) AND a Third Reich civil service cross for 25 or 40 years-- what would that ribbon bar have told us loose? NOT that he was a junior Kriegsmarine reserve officer, that's for sure!!!!

[Gerd Becker]

Updating my picture with one from the new camera!

I don?t know about everyone else, but that is the first real Danzig-ribbon, i have ever seen. Great find, Chet

[CRBeery]

Thanks Gerd - the guy at the MAX sold it as a West Wall. I looked a little closer and almost did the "Happy" dance in front of him. I managed to get several tables away before it overcame me. He was also the source of two of my enamel lapel devices, my Saxon mini bar and the cased Johanniter. I still keep in touch with him.