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SOCIAL WELFARE MEDAL

SOCIAL WELFARE MEDAL

LOT 62-0267
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DESCRIPTion, DETaILS & Photos
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PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany
MATERIAL tombak
DIMENSIONS 38 mm
MAKER
WEIGHT 22.3 g
US LOT 62-0267
EAN 4000000004777
US LOT 62-0267
PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany
EAN 4000000004777
MATERIAL tombak
DIMENSIONS 38 mm
MAKER
WEIGHT 22.3 g
PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany
US LOT 62-0267
MATERIAL tombak
DIMENSIONS 38 mm
EAN 4000000004777
MAKER
WEIGHT 22.3 g
Germany 1918 - 1945


Description

Social wekfare medal in silvered brass on original ribbon. complete with 9 mm miniatur pin.

In great condition.


Condition
1-

Seller
History Trader Inc., 521 Thorn Street #165, Sewickly, PA 15143-0165, USA
Historical information

The Social Welfare Decoration (Ehrenzeichen für deutsche Volkspflege) was a German Civil Award created by Adolf Hitler on May 1, 1939, for services in the social sector. The decoration was issued in three classes and was awarded for a wide variety of service, in the social sector, to the German state. Qualifying service would have been with Winterhilfswerk, National Socialist People's Welfare, medical and rescue work, or care of foreign and ethnic Germans. As a replacement for the German Red Cross Decoration, it was conferred in four classes consisting of a white-enameled gold Balkenkreuz with Reich eagle and swastika. A "Medal of Social Welfare" was also issued for lesser degrees of service, not warranting the higher presentation of a class award.

The main requirement for the award was that the service rendered should be to the benefit of the civil population. Reinhard Heydrich was awarded the decoration for his running of the Gestapo in the 1930s and for providing "security" to the German people. 

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