Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Newly Listed involving attacks on a wide

involving attacks on a wide variety of targets

The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area

A Deutscher Siedlerbund (DSB) membership badge

von Cossel with Windisch

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Newly Listed involving attacks on a wide(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular 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 inscription of FR