Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Auction (awarded to members of the

(awarded to members of the 101st Airborne for the defense of Bastogne)

with impaired function of the heart due to the Influenza

A 1936 NSDAP Reichsparteitag badge

it went to France as part of the abortive Second British Expeditionary Force

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Auction (awarded to members of the(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). 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