SS document award. What is it?

[valsente]

Hi guys,
I've goten this ss award document that seems to be original and very scarce ( I didn't see it before ). Could anyone help me to get any more information about it?
Tnaks in advance. Val

[jambobbyb]

Hi its for one of these (i have no idea if the is award in the link is right or not but there is a decent enough description)
http://www.emedals.ca/catalog.asp?item=GRA179
Cheers
James

[SurvivingPanzer]

The link says the badge is from the 40's. What is the 1922 in the top corner?

[jambobbyb]

The award date on the bottom is 25th of april 1944 i think the 1922 date is his date of birth geb 30/10/1922 gotta be some german speakers on here as mines terrible
Also doesnt abschrift mean copy? why would there be a copy of an award doc?

[Jørgen E]

The 1922 date is indeed his date of birth! The award date is stated as 25th of april 1944 as jambobbyb already said ;-)

[jambobbyb]

I just checked abschrift does mean copy
Its certainly an interesting document i would suggest moving it to the paper forum and let some of the paper experts take a look

[valsente]

Thanks to all for your quick responses. Could anyone recognize the signer of this document? He should have been an SS-Prinz Eugen Division officer.

[jambobbyb]

Ask a mod to move it to the paper forum some of those guys have some scary knowledge when it comes to sigs and docs

[valsente]

I just checked abschrift does mean copy
Its certainly an interesting document i would suggest moving it to the paper forum and let some of the paper experts take a look

How can I move it to the paper forum? Thanks
Val

[jambobbyb]

Hi you need to contact one of the forum moderators, Lorenzo Brown, Don Doering, or Giel Van Wassenhove should be able to do it for you

[Simon O.]

Not my thing but i'd imagine it's pretty scarce, looks like the Einsatzstaffel der Deutsche Mannschaft was only 2500 to 3000 strong so i guess the total number of those badges awarded was a good deal lower?

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=7276

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Simon, thanks for that link. I had not read that before. (Thanks Larry for the research ) The numbers of the men is that unit are remarkably small which I had not realised. I have an M40 helmet to that unit, which I include a pic of the decal for interests sake.

Getting back to the award in question here is a link to the badge which we have discussed on the forum some time ago. Sadly some of the pics are now missing:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ad.php?t=39026

Cheers, Ade.

[Simon O.]

Very interesting Ade, so i'd imagine the award doc to this badge is even scarcer than the badge itself?

[Adrian Stevenson]

I have never seen one before (not that that means much ) Like all of this stuff, not something to be found with by Tito's Partizans.

Cheers, Ade.