Lazy or Cheap

[dond]

What is up with this bar. Was the wearer too lazy to get it done correctly or too cheap?

Don

[Daniel Murphy]

Don,

I would say cheap. Well, maybe not cheap, just frugal. If he were lazy he could have paid someone else to do it right. Typical vet add on medal bar.

[JBFloyd]

Consider that Germany was not in the best of economic condition in 1934, when the Hindenburg Cross came along. A vet who wanted his new medal mounted may have had to choose between that and a meal or two. So, he took the path of least resistance and, typical of soldiers in other times and places, fixed the problem with materials at hand.

[notned]

Gents,

I have one too!

A Brunswick native....and i do accept the reasoning that in 1934 when things were tight, the vet would be adding the HK in his own way....

This came with his minatures on a chain and two button hole devices without buttons....

Enjoy

[notned]

here is the front...he was pretty hard up...and when his EK ring broke off...he just used a Prym safety pin!

[Stogieman]

I believe the correct term would be "frugal". We do see these bars for everyone from gefreiters to Obersts!!