If I can play devils advocate here:
A spelling mistake in a badge most likely commissioned by a regiment made up mostly of volunteers from non-German speaking backgrounds isn't necessarily all that far-fetched, is it?
Imagine a group of volunteer Iranian US Marine Corps troops on tour in Iraq. They commission an Iraqi silversmith to make them a badge commemmorating their tour. They or the silversmith make a spelling mistake in the English text.
Point is, who knows where the badge was made up: if it was done at the behest of Wiking soldiers in in e.g. Russia or Poland - quite possibly since it's probably not an official Reich government badge - the artist making the dies or molds might well have made a mistake. Not to mention the soldier writing the required type down might have made a mistake, for all we know he was from Holland or Norway.
I'm sure typos and spelling errors happened back then as much as now. I wouldn't like to see future generations discount objects from our era due to spelling errors (it would discount almost all popular culture items immediately and yet we all know that Eminem's CDs are real).
Spelling errors might not happen often in official Reich products but in small run personal badges like these it'd have to be possible. I agree that it's also even easier for a Latvian manufacturer to get it wrong in 2004.
But still, I don't know, seems quite possible to me. If a Norwegian veteran handed me one I wouldn't fall over in amazement at the spelling error.
A spelling mistake in a badge most likely commissioned by a regiment made up mostly of volunteers from non-German speaking backgrounds isn't necessarily all that far-fetched, is it?
Imagine a group of volunteer Iranian US Marine Corps troops on tour in Iraq. They commission an Iraqi silversmith to make them a badge commemmorating their tour. They or the silversmith make a spelling mistake in the English text.
Point is, who knows where the badge was made up: if it was done at the behest of Wiking soldiers in in e.g. Russia or Poland - quite possibly since it's probably not an official Reich government badge - the artist making the dies or molds might well have made a mistake. Not to mention the soldier writing the required type down might have made a mistake, for all we know he was from Holland or Norway.
I'm sure typos and spelling errors happened back then as much as now. I wouldn't like to see future generations discount objects from our era due to spelling errors (it would discount almost all popular culture items immediately and yet we all know that Eminem's CDs are real).
Spelling errors might not happen often in official Reich products but in small run personal badges like these it'd have to be possible. I agree that it's also even easier for a Latvian manufacturer to get it wrong in 2004.
But still, I don't know, seems quite possible to me. If a Norwegian veteran handed me one I wouldn't fall over in amazement at the spelling error.
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