Opinions - Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen Entnazifiziert

[Krist]

Hello ,
Can anyone tell me if these are real ?
Regards , Kris .

[Nordmark]

Hi Kris,


both are good, but heavily damaged as you might have noticed.


Regards,


Daniel

[Blued]

Both original!

[Thomas Durante]

Hi Kris,

Daniel is right ofcourse, both fine originals, just denazified and the B&NL is missing its catch unfortunately.

Tom

[Krist]

Hi Kris,


both are good, but heavily damaged as you might have noticed.


Regards,


Daniel

Thank you Daniel for the answer . I know that these are damaged , and finds this pity , but I have not paid much for , 40 euros a piece .
Regards , Kris .

[Wim Vangossum]

Both original but they lost their historical value.


Regards, Wim

[Thomas Durante]

Both original but they lost their historical value.

Hi Wim,

I am surprised to hear you say this as I have always felt that denazified badges were a big part of our hobby with good historical context. Especially when I think that the most logical way a badge was denazified was by the recipient himself. Ofcourse we cannot be sure when the denazification occurred, but with all things being equal then I tend to believe that these were combat-worn badges and that the recipient wanted to continue to wear the badge after May 1945. Or perhaps a member of the Bundeswehr who wanted to wear his hard earned badges before the new 1957-version examples came out.

These were combat-worn badges IMO. Hard to imagine someone picking one up from a warehouse after the war and denazify it. Especially an American souvenier hunter; to him I would think the bigger the swastika the better! But anything is possible I guess.

Tom

[Krist]

Thanks for all the answers .
Regards , Kris .

[JJS]

Kris
As stated, both GABs are original. The first one shown is a Deumer, and the second one is a B&N L. Neither of these are common badges; ie these two makers did not mass produce GABs. Obviously, as noted, both examples are denazified substantially reducing their value. The B&N also has its clasp missing.
JJS

[Graeme]

Hi Kris

Interesting badges. Both look original.

The first badge (apart from the swas missing) is in great shape

regards
Graeme

[Wim Vangossum]

Hi Wim,

I am surprised to hear you say this as I have always felt that denazified badges were a big part of our hobby with good historical context. Especially when I think that the most logical way a badge was denazified was by the recipient himself. Ofcourse we cannot be sure when the denazification occurred, but with all things being equal then I tend to believe that these were combat-worn badges and that the recipient wanted to continue to wear the badge after May 1945. Or perhaps a member of the Bundeswehr who wanted to wear his hard earned badges before the new 1957-version examples came out.

These were combat-worn badges IMO. Hard to imagine someone picking one up from a warehouse after the war and denazify it. Especially an American souvenier hunter; to him I would think the bigger the swastika the better! But anything is possible I guess.

Tom

Hi Tom,


Maybe was "historical not valuable" a bit to harsh from my side. I guess it has all to do by the way or vision that I have on collecting Third Reich artifarcts. For me the Darwinistic vision to the world, like seen by the Nazi's,was at the same time the most unique, cruel and criminal way of buiding up a humain society. A kind of society that never was seen before, or after in the history of the world. In my opinion it is not compareble with anything else in the history of the human race. And that's precisely why I find it so important to safe keeping all the artifarcts from that abnormaly period in the history that only last a bit more then one decade. And that's why I don't pay much attention to denazified collectibles or nazi things that are signed by GI's (like flags) etc..

But you're right: All these things ,including GI - signed flags and denazified awards have their important role in history.


Regards, Wim