Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Hold The book was meant to

The book was meant to honour the commander’s death and inspire youth

accompanied by a miniature breast cross

and red BeVo style machine embroidery in the form of a standard Luftwaffe eagle and a national tri-colour cocade

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Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Hold The book was meant to(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a silvered Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular and gilded oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black enameled swastika, the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised