Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Archive reverse lower arm engraved 1944

reverse lower arm engraved 1944

This scarce cap is in an overall near extremely fine condition

it was proposed that officers and men would wear the same badges

Army Additional Ribbons Letter

maker marked “Klotz und Kienast

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Archive reverse lower arm engraved 1944(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central raised number 8, circumscribed by an