U-boat War Badge with Diamonds today!

[John R.]

Good work Sepp. John

[Sepp45]

The Dönitz special badge featured on the book "Auszeichnungen des Deutschen Reiches 1936-1945", by Kurt Gerhard Klietmann.

[Norm F]

The Dönitz special badge featured on the book "Auszeichnungen des Deutschen Reiches 1936-1945", by Kurt Gerhard Klietmann.

Thanks Sepp,

Of course, that's the same image that was used subsequently in both Nimmergut's book and R. Friedrich Honts' peculiar fake-ridden publication, as discussed in post #116. It's also the same image that was hacked with the digital addition of a swastika and shown in the Ailsby blog as mentioned in post #117.

Whether it's the true badge or not remains unverified. Possibly but even if so, it's whereabouts are unknown today, and the image has undergone considerable hacking by others in the meantime.

Best regards,
---Norm

[Sepp45]

Not the best picture, but that's Fregattenkapitän Reinhard Suhren's badge with diamonds, as shown on the book "Nasses Eichenlaub - Als Kommandant und FDU im U-Boot-Krieg", by Fritz Brustat-Naval and Teddy Suhren.

He was awarded the Uboot badge with diamonds on January 1st, 1942 (from wikipedia) or March, 1942 (from uboat.net).

[amiklic1]

Emmermann's badge was on SOS again, in Wolfe/Hardin display.

[Norm F]

I'm not sure if this one is already posted, but this is extracted from a photo of Wolfe/Hardin display at SOS. It belonged to Carl Emmermann of U-172

Hi Andjelo,

Yep, check out posts 4, 5, 75, 98 and 119.

Also in the addendum to "The Kriegsmarine Awards" here:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...&postcount=168

Best regards,
---Norm

[Sepp45]

Unattributed piece from the book: "Auszeichnungen des Deutschen Reiches 1936-1945", by Kurt Gerhard Klietmann.

[Sepp45]

Kapitänleutnant Wolfgang Lüth

The badge awarded to Lüth with it respective case, as shown on the book "Military awards of the Third Reich", by John R. Angolia.

[Norm F]

The badge awarded to Lüth with it respective case, as shown on the book "Military awards of the Third Reich", by John R. Angolia.

Hi Sepp,

Angolia obviously made his share of mistakes. The badge in that case labelled "J. Godet & Sohn" of course bears no resemblance to Lüth's actual U-Boat with Diamonds which you posted earlier. Unless the caption which is cut off is saying only the case was for the U-Boat in Diamonds since it says something about it being a "mixed specimen"?, but even so that would be wrong too.

Best regards,
---Norm

[Sepp45]

Hi Sepp,

Angolia obviously made his share of mistakes. The fake in that case labelled "J. Godet & Sohn" of course bears no resemblance to Lüth's actual U-Boat with Diamonds which you posted earlier.

Best regards,
---Norm

Very important information Norm, thanks for noticing!! You are the expert

[Sepp45]

Unless the caption which is cut off is saying only the case was for the U-Boat in Diamonds since it says something about it being a "mixed specimen"?, but even so that would be wrong too.

I don't think it say anything more than that, but I couldn't get a better picture yet.

[Sepp45]

Schultze's Badge, front and back.

Quality photo of his badge.

(Photo credits to Andreas-Thies)

[Sepp45]

Close up.

[Sepp45]

An incredible color photo of the badge, dated 1941.

(Source: ullstein-bild)

[Norm F]

An incredible color photo of the badge, dated 1941.

(Source: ullstein-bild)

H Sepp,

That's a nice photo but it's hard to know when it was photographed. I went onto Ullstein-Bild to look at the photos and descriptions for Kriegsabzeichen and like you say, for this photo it says "Date/period photographed: 01.01.1941 - 31.12.1941".

The problem is, in the same section they show a full colour photograph of an Imperial U-Boat badge with the caption: "Date/period photographed: 01.01.1918 - 31.12.1918". Clearly that photograph was not from 1918, so these dates don't seem to be the date of the photographs but rather an estimated date of origin for the artifacts they show.

In contrast, they have there a B&W photo of a Schwerin U-Boat badge with a much more complete description: "Submarine-medall; was awarded to soldiers who proved themselves on two or more attacks on the enemy - 1939 - Photographer: Presse-Illustrationen Heinrich Hoffmann - Vintage property of ullstein bild". That one is clearly identified as a 1939 vintage photograph.

It therefore seems possible that the photo of the Diamonds badge was from a later unspecified time period. Hard to say though.

Best regards,
---Norm