Alfred

and the second part. Sadly also on the original the last figure of his promotion dates are missing. But he had quite a carrer. From 1940 to 1945 in the army and he got promoted to a major.

Thanks guys for the help. I have another group with Red Star, Bravery medal, Praque medal to an artillery Sergeant. But I will send this first to Paul for translation before I post it here. Here is the reverse page of the personel file

Many thanks Rick, and the rest of the citations are much better. Most of his awards he got at the Oder River. His unit took many many prisoners and his unit defeat the whole Wehrmacht alone. He was proposed for a second first class OGPW, but it was downgraded in chain of command to a second class. I ?ll post the rest of the documents in the next days. Yes 22.08.45 is right. OGPW 1class 223.610 per 22.8.45, Chief Council (Soviet) of Occupation Forces in Germany regards Andreas

his career

his ugly picture

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At the moment I have no translation. I only know the content of the papers. Award Card part 1

and the reverse

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Major Wladimir Petrovitsch Dovbenko OGPW 1st class: 223.610 OGPW 2st class: 229.102 OGPW 2st class: 455.973 Red Star: 551.0996 Warsaw medal Victory over Germany

Bought this document with cross on the military trade fair in Stuttgart. It?s awarded to the Musketier Leweling 10. Ersatz Division, 371. Infanterie-Regiment , 9. Kompanie. As I am new to the subjekt, I found the last line interesting. "His cross is number 7.953 in the award book of the 10. Ersatz Division." Are these books available today? What is written in these books? regards Andreas

Hi, on Friday I bought a Iron Cross, 2nd Class, 1914, marked with WO. Is this possible? Or is the second letter just disturbed and it is WS. regards Andreas

As soviet stuff gets priceless, I just started to collect EK II?s and documents First World War. The first EK II document group with a Frontk?mpfer Ehrenkreuz. regards Andreas P.S. What is a Arendt Abteilung? of the 9th Army.

Yes Brian, a few years ago they were easy to find ..... The reason why I bought the bar is that both CSM medals have almost sequential numbers. In this case I think there is a change that the group is not put together. One of my next research projects regards Andreas

Not really sure, but I think around 50.000 pieces were awarded. regards Andreas

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Hi, bought this medal bar two weeks ago on a local military show. Never saw this kind of fixing with two little thick screws before. Any oppinions about this fixing. bets regards Andreas

Dear Christian, PMD stopped authenticating Homelands 2nd class long before he closed his business. By the way, Alexei "continued the business from Paul" authenticating soviet orders, medals and badges. In my honest oppinion, to fake a second class is very very easy. You take a 3rd class with low genuine serial number and plate the order with gold. Thats all. Now you have a "genuine" 2nd class. You have to change no serial number. The only thing is, that the stock of low serial number 3rd class is limited. best regards Andreas

Dear Christian, the second class Nr. 718 has a longer screw. No I haven?t another second class, with higher serial number. I have no theory about the colour of the gold plating. best regards Andreas

I also recognized, that later Motherlands (2cl & 3cl) have shorter - more comfortable - screws, than earlier ones. I measured the lenght of the screw of two Homelands. s/n: 18.xxx and 70.xxx The 70.xxx has a two (2) mm shorter screw than the 18.xxx. In my oppinion that is a normal production variant, as other awards have. best regrads Andreas

is there a second award book (where maybe a MM-Medal -10 years- and a Red Star -15 years- of service are entered) or are the Red Banner and the Lenin not for long service. What are the serial numbers of the awards. regards Andreas

Here is a direct comparision of the two Nevskis. Compare yours with the picture above.

Wlodzimierz, I do not like this Nevski. All letters of the word "Alexander Nevski" look disturbed. The last two i i ind the word Nevskii looks bad. Parts of the feets of the letter i are missing (compare is with a genuine Nevski - see picture). The K looks disturbed. The red enamel looks bad. The mint mark on the back looks disturbed. My guess it is a good casting made out of silver with defects. Soviet awards have no wearing Duplicates. All duplicates are mint made, with changed serial number. Only my oppinion, there may be other oppinions. Better pictures would be helpful, may be the letters are only on the picture disturbed due to low resolution of the pic?? best regards Andreas

The change between the 4 and 4 rivets happened somewhere around the 58.xxx serial numbers. I know one group, it is posted here, where the order was awarded to a normal worker. regards Andreas