NSDAP Grenadier and party member

[Odulf]

Recently I received this portrait (dated 1944) of a soldier but with an interesting four place ribbon bar, comprising the NSDAP Long Service Awards in Bronze (10 yrs) and Silver (15 yrs), a combination seldom seen on the chest of a common Grenadier, and also in his button hole the ribbon of the Winter Campaign Medal. in Russia 1941/42.

Edited July 13, 2013 by Odulf

[Guest Rick Research]

That is just about the perfect example of the oddity of NSDAP long service award ribbon bars. Unlike any other long service awards, with seniority being a good indicator of rank... no correlation here with Party awards. He doesn't look old enough for that length of pre-1933 double time-- maybe an early and the overage Hitler Youth?