Vets wearing their 57ers!!!

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Oberst Hans-Joachim Hunger

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Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer und Staatssekretär Walter Hallstein, 1959

Despite Hallstein is not wearing any military decorations, I thought the minis were fantastic (and the color picture too).

Anybody knows if Hallstein served during WW2?

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Would you look at those miniature medal bars

One of the best there Sepp.

Regards,
Rudy

[Norm F]

Anybody knows if Hallstein served during WW2?

It says in this Wikipedia article that he was an Oberleutnant in an Artillery regiment in France and ended up in a U.S. prisoner-of-war camp:

"Soldier and prisoner of war (1942–1945)

In 1942 Hallstein was called up, and he served in an artillery regiment[8] in Northern France with the rank of first lieutenant (Oberleutnant).[10] On 26 June 1944, during the Battle of Cherbourg, he was captured by the Americans[10] and sent to Camp Como, a prisoner-of-war camp in Mississippi.[14]

As a German prisoner of war in the United States, Hallstein started a "camp university",[9] where he held law courses for the prisoners.[14] As part of the Sunflower Project, a project to re-educate German POWs, he attended an "administrative school" at Fort Getty, where teaching included the principles of the United States federal constitution.[14] Hallstein remained a prisoner-of-war from June 1944 to mid-1945.[14]"

Best regards,
---Norm

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Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer und Staatssekretär Walter Hallstein, 1959

Despite Hallstein is not wearing any military decorations, I thought the minis were fantastic (and the color picture too).

Anybody knows if Hallstein served during WW2?

Fantastic photo!!

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Feldwebel Otto Riehs, 2001

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Estonian volunteer SS-Ustuf Harri Rent, wearing a set of German awards and a modern Estonian army uniform.

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Veterans reunion, 1990

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Veterans reunion, 1995

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Josef Haim, EKII and IAB

One more

[Nigel N]

Many thanks once again Sepp!!
Your tireless contributions have made this the superb thread it is!!!!!!!!!
-Nigel

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Many thanks once again Sepp!!
Your tireless contributions have made this the superb thread it is!!!!!!!!!

thanks for the words

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OdR meeting in Spittal Austria,1986.

From left to right: Martin Steglich, Ernst Graf Strachwitz, Walther-Peer Fellgiebel, Willi Fey, Erwin Kreßmann, Ludwig Bauer and Ludwig Hammer.

Some others are still unidentified.

(Photo credits to MFF Forum)

[Tom B]

OdR meeting in Spittal Austria,1986.

From left to right: Martin Steglich, Ernst Graf Strachwitz, Walther-Peer Fellgiebel, Willi Fey, Erwin Kreßmann, Ludwig Bauer and Ludwig Hammer.

Some others are still unidentified.

(Photo credits to MFF Forum)

VERY nice photo !!! Thanks my Friend !!!!! Tom

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Feldwebel Friedrich Glaser, 1984