Foreign Awards to German Soldiers

[Kai Winkler]

In my opinion documents of awards are much more interesting than the badges. They always tell a small story of the soldier and you can start research.
I think it cant be a problem for the collectors of this forum to start some great topics like we do it on the main forum.

I will start here with a topic over foreign award documents to german soldiers.

Document collectors please show us what you have to this subject!!!

The document I post pictures of was given to a german submarine Maschinenmaat. The rumänische navy award him the rumänien submarine badge for training the rumänien submarine soldiers on their new submarines.
The rumänien navy had only two submarines. Both would given to them by the germans. So their can be only around 100 awards to rumänien soldiers and maybe between 5 and 10 to german soldiers.


Thanks to Mark Schroeder for his help with the photos.
* The first sentence of this topic was deleted with the permission of Kaï

[ 18 August 2001: Message edited by: François SAEZ ]

[François SAEZ]

Not as rare as the document presented by Kai, is the Bulgarian pilote badge given to G. Bach (Officer in KG3 later moved to NJG2)
Double face, written both in Bulgarian and German).
G. Bach, also received the Hungarian Pilot badge

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[ 23 September 2001: Message edited by: François SAEZ ]

[François SAEZ]

Interesting to compare the dates and attribution #s, here is another Bulgarian Pilote badge document for Oberfeldwebel Ludger Hessling from a Nahaufklärungsstaffel (11./11).He was a DKiG and Honor goblet winner.
Date is July 1941 with # 832, while Bach (also DKiG and Honor goblet winner) is dated July 1942 with the # 4179.
We can assume that this double text doc were issued only to Foreign soldiers, and probably mostly to German soldiers/pilots.


* This document is not mine anymore
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[ 23 September 2001: Message edited by: François SAEZ ]

[Eric Queen]

Beautiful pieces Francois, especially the Hungarian document. Outstanding !!!

Here is a document for the Italian "Croce al Valore" ( Cross of Valor ) given to army paratrooper Hauptmann Georg KNACKE.
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[ 23 September 2001: Message edited by: François SAEZ ]

[François SAEZ]

Here is a Romanian document for "Crusade Against Communism" Medal with bar "Black Sea" "oxydized." Given to an U-boot guy from U-108
The guy was also DKiG winner



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[François SAEZ]

On the super nice docs posted by my friend Eric, I notice two interesting points on the Italian document:
- They describe why he was given "The Cross of Valor" (on the field). Which is not generally the case.
- And that from Georg he is going to "Giorgio" - maybe a way to share the prestige of such soldier.
As usual, super docs
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[François SAEZ]

To illustrate this topic, here is a pic of a German Pilot wearing a Croatian pilot badge
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[ 23 September 2001: Message edited by: François SAEZ ]

[Stijn David]

Hello,


And mayby a little background info on Francois awards :

On the right we see a nice version off the Croatian Pilots badge , it is a badge second type .
This kind off badge could be awarded to all trained pilots ( fighter and bomber ) , sometime the number off the award could be found on the reverse off the badge and this one is most probably made by " Braca Knaus - Zagreb "

THe other award is the Military order off the trefoil 4 e class ( the ribbon is atypical identification for the class of these Croatian awards. )


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[François SAEZ]

More Croatian awards to Germans soldiers
I will let my friend Stijn comments (team work)
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[ 23 September 2001: Message edited by: François SAEZ ]

[Steve in Florida]

Oh goody! I get to participate in something besides Die Kneipe! Purty sure that's a Bulgarian Pilot's badge on this gent's tunic. Lt. Josef Wenigmann, KC, KIA North Afrika 1942.





[ 19 August 2001: Message edited by: Steve in Florida ]

[Steve in Florida]

Here's a head scratcher for me. It's Estonian judging from the three lions, but what is it for?


Having problems posting this one for some reason. I'll try again tomorrow.

[ 19 August 2001: Message edited by: Steve in Florida ]

[Stijn David]

Hello,


About the next picture FRancois posted , you can also see the Croatian Pilots badge , the other 2 awards are Rumanian ( both are different classes off the Rumanian order off the crown !!!!! )

This Rumanian award was instituted on 10.05.1877 by king Karl I from Rumania ( there are two section => civil and military ( thie military section has swords !!!!! )
This is an award that was given frequently to German's.

Also very nice to see is that the small LW eagles on his ribbon bar are tending to rotate !!!! ( something i had not been seen untill now with GErman's )

And superpictures FRancois

Sorry steve on yours i can not comment => the picture from the award is not clear enough ????

Friendly Greetings,

[François SAEZ]

Yup Steve, you are right, it is a bulgarian Pilote badge.
Thanks for sharing
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[François SAEZ]

Bulgarian Pilot badge (left) & Bulgarian Observer badge:
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[ 23 September 2001: Message edited by: François SAEZ ]

[François SAEZ]

Graf with a Romanian Pilot badge:
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[ 23 September 2001: Message edited by: François SAEZ ]