Illigal sale of RK's, IC's etc.!!

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S&L?

Could this be an S&L?

[Dave Kane]

A bit grainy but....could be!


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[Luftm40]

Dave, great snaps! in what context were these picture taken?

[Dave Kane]

Thanks Andy...an article in Revue magazine in May 1953!!!! Published in Munich and sold for 50 pfennig.


That's as OPEN as you can get!


Dave

[Brian S]

I'm jumping into the WayBackMachine and get some of those... Is that a flaw on the 3 o'clock?

[Dave Kane]

Brian aren't we all wishing.....32 dm for a silver (marked) Knight's Cross!!


What was that in US coin then?

Dave

[Brian S]

The dollar was pretty much consistently 4,20 DM in the sixties. Then Nixon said the Gold Standard. An ounce of gold was about $37.00.

[Luftm40]

I must say, the RK DOES look like it has the "flange" of extra material inside the loop

[Dave Kane]

I agree....but then I thought if it were 'unfinished' why would it have the frosting which is apparent!


The whole magazine just shouts 'in your face' and features articals on SS etc. w/ nothing blocked out!

The Knight's Cross is very interesting though just by itself!!

Dave

[Brian S]

Dave, I lived in Hamburg in the early 70's for a year. I worked for an ex-Luft Colonel and an Austrian Captain who ran an airline. Met some pretty 'serious' guys who had no problems discussing the good old days in English so I wouldn't miss a word. The local bar owner, also ex-Armee. Everyone was very loyal, shall we say. When I mentioned the movie the Odessa Files maybe I should have mentioned the book. It REALLY gives you the big picture about who was mayor of various cities and how important Hamburg was a 'loyal' city. These guys weren't wearning the stuff, saluting or sieg heiling, but they were very very loyal in everything they said.

Nothing anti-semitic, nothing anti-American, just very loyal to their Kameraden and the party.

[Dave Kane]

Understood...and in speaking with others, very common and accepted!!


Dave