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armband worn by " dutch resistance " members after 4/5 may 1945 they are all local made even printed on a white pieces of cloth mostly common is this type and the orange type. every city or village had other seals/stamps on it,very nice to collect become rare these days. Sorry to say but during the war there was not so much resistance action in the netherlands(exept if you read the current re -written history books) and we all listen very well to our new lords and delivered the most volunteers of whole europe for the waffen ss or other services in the german army. On a nation of 8/9.000 000 people more than 2 000 000 joined the germans and not spoken of the dutch who support them not openly but on a secert way of donation goods or money. We even helped our new lords to give all dutch citizens an id card with photo and fingerprints and marked the jews with a J in it. And after germany lost the war the whole nation was filled with resistance units,of course there was some active fights against german forces but not in the way as in the rest of europe.

this medal was made in the mid 70s in france by a medal dealer,to comm the france campaign in southern parts for the netherlands. no official medal just worn by french veterans and bought by collectors,have had a box of 20/25 of them in the mid 80s bought in west germany at the famous graf klenau auction house while i was a on military service based in western germany and sold them for 20,-/25,- hfl now about 9/11 euro on dutch military shows,todays prices in holland for this medal 40 euro or more

hi,i am just new on this forum,collect medals since the mid 80s with some ups and downs but always have had intrest in eastblock medals esp czech 1948 - 1989,i do have a book on czech medals in stock any intrest in it?? sovetska a ceskoslovenska vyznamenani soviet and czechoslovakian awards printed in 1974 by magnet press(they made more medal books visit the empty building a few years ago & hope to find some books building is still empty and still for sale) was sold in the vojenske muzeum in prague during the medalshow of ussr/cssr medals 144 pages good condition in czech text of course but with lots of photos even for those who dont understand czech. There is a mixed system on czech medals you have the state medals like orders of the red banner and any ww II medal like partizans star,but the police,fire brigade,kraj(states ) do have there own medals also and to made it nicer to the collectors also in slovakian and czech text.