Campaign Medals

[Ammersee]

Why is there a campaign medal for Austria but none for Poland? I'm sure there's a good reason, but I've just never heard it. Ammersee

[PAB_Collector]

The annexation medals celebrated huge political triumphs, or perhaps more accurately gambles, that paid off without resorting to arms, that brought together a greater German Reich, and "Volk". In the ethos of Nazi ideology these were enormous success's.

The polish campaign was a flagrant act of aggressive war, and a precursor of the life and death struggle Hitler had committed the nation too. The defeat of Poland, France, the Balkans, etc; were but extensions of a new Europa under the German yolk, and/or securities against the real struggle, the life and death, in the East.

This may help explain the lack of Campaign medals, as the "struggle"/the war, was not complete, where as the annexations were complete, and unopposed by the powers that could have thwarted them.

[Ammersee]

Thanks PAB. I'd never really heard an explanation before. Ammersee