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Posts posted by webr55
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Hi,
Looks to me like the standard 3rd Reich issue loyal service being worn backwards.
Regards,
Sam
Certainly a political statement, then.
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Very nice picture of Alfred von Randow (of the Detachement) with his full "I don't care what regulations there are..." medal bar:
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Oberstarbeitsführer #3, Wilhelm Faatz:
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Generalarbeitsführer #11, Hermann Tholens:
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Generalarbeitsführer #3 on the list, Ludwig Schröder:
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Some more: Generalarbeitsführer #2, Hans Baumann:
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And from one of the party rallies... Hierl to the left, but the others? The one to the right seems to have a Navy WB.
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This Bavarian postman uses the double LS awards. Is that a postwar uniform, with the Treudienst M1957?
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Congratulations on the first ID based on the new sources!
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As a teaser, here are the General and Colonel ranks:
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But for the identification of bars, Volume 1 will be the most important one by far. This is the way it is laid out - and by coincidence
, this is a page Rick has been waiting for a long time...
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I couldn't get Volume 3 (Oberfeldmeister), but I have Volume 4 (Feldmeister = Leutnant-equivalent) for 1940, with handwritten additions until 1943.
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Second volume, all Oberstfeldmeisters (equivalent Hauptmann):
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This is the most interesting volume, I think. It contains the names (with first names), assignments and seniorities of many WW1 officers who are otherwise totally invisible during the Third Reich.
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Finally got it! The Dienstaltersliste 1938 of the RAD/Reichsarbeitsdienst. Apparently totally neglected and never published. It comes in 4 volumes, first one Generalarbeitsführer (Generalmajor equivalent) down to Arbeitsführer (equivalent Major):
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There is a fairly new Wikipedia page on veterans of the Spanish Civil War that are still alive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_vet...anish_Civil_War
Maybe anyone here knows more veterans, including those of the Legion Condor?
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In the interest of future collectors, I would suggest not leaving it this way. Those are all nice pieces in themselves, when separated...
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hmmm... this bar raises a number of questions, most importantly: A XXIV officer's cross, but no Jubilee medal?
I think this is an NCO's bar that has been monkeyed with. Maybe that should not even be Strelitz, but Schwerin...
Regards
Chris
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Mistakes in Wear
in Germany: Imperial: The Orders, Decorations and Medals of The Imperial German States
Posted · Edited by webr55
Generalleutnant Harry Hoppe talking to his men - but somehow is EK1 seems to have gone on holiday...