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Minor point: "Erhebung" is not annexation. This is a coin to commemorate the 1848 uprising against the Danish government.

And BEWARE AGAIN! gruenauge68 is currently offering this fake at 99 Euros: :speechless1:

And it ended up at 106 Euros! Who says crime doesn't pay???

yes, that guy must have bought the Siam bar from am-militaria: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtop...st&p=237213 sorry too for you Christer...

Someone STOP HIM!! This one is currently at 86 Euros - and rising! Those people think they will get a REAL Medalla Militar bar!! It is !

Just look at those devices:

My deepest sympathy! At least, in your mines, you don't have the Balrog on your back... :cheers:

Congratulations once again!! :cheers:

And his baton is up for sale at Hermann Historica again - starting at ? 45.000.

This monstrosity is currently on ebay.

Guess it's Ohio parts...?

Library catalogs.

Another bar at the German Tank Museum in Munster. A Bavarian long-serving NCO with lots of battle clasps on the DSWA medal:

Hard to say, there are several candidates: Erich Zacharias, Dr. med. from the University of Jena in 1913 Gotthard Zacharias-Langhans, Dr. med. from the University of Straßburg in 1912 Kurt Zacharias (aus Garnsee), Dr. med. from the University of Freiburg in 1906 Paul Zacharias (aus Plön), Dr. med. from the University of Leipzig in 1901 Max Zacharias, Dr. med. from the University of Königsberg in 1890

This one went for 42 euros! Combination is not that bad - for an inexperienced collector it's hard to tell the fake...

That must be correct: He must have got his HSH2bX in the 30s. Two commander crosses on his ribbon bar. Last one - a Swedish Sword Order Commander:

Ok - there are two things in the collection that I didn't show yet... and they make this bar not correct - but a little less strange...

Now... any idea what the point here is....? :rolleyes:

... and it might be the very one that is on this picture of him:

This is his earlier ribbon bar...

I couldn't resist teasing... Wilhelm Philipps' complete awards are in the German Tank Museum in Munster. They have his RK, DKiG and all the others, most docs too. Now this is his medal bar - minus the missing St. Henry...

Ok - you wanted it!

Not mine, sadly. But if I had seen this bar (front only), I'd have thought it was a fake...

They didn't know - and he fled to Sweden in time.

Slava is correct. Here's a second pic of Oberleutnant Helmut Schmidt, taken in 1942. He's got the EK2, Eastern Front Medal (in the buttonhole), Sudeten medal and the Ground Combat Badge. Brandt was a member of the resistance against the Nazis. He went into exile in Norway and Sweden. For a short time in 1940, he was even a POW of the Germans, while fighting in Norwegian uniform.