What is this neck order?

[stonemint]

Sold on Ebay, so it was censored.
It looks homemade.
Some sort of Karneval medal?:

[pauke]

order

It is an over all strange photo since the piping on the hat and tunic clearly don't match, the belt is not correct and the double rows of ribbons are ridiculous in addition to the fake neck order.

[MarcRikmenspoel]

I don't know if the photo shows someone genuinely posing with decorations during wartime. If it does, he wears an exaggerated neck award (the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross?).

When it had been announced that someone won a high award, but the presentation hadn't been made, comrades sometimes made these exaggerated decorations for the recipient to pose with. I've seen a photo of Werner Poetchke wearing an exaggerated Oakleaves and Knight's Cross, and another of Heinz Hämel wearing an exaggerated Knight's Cross.

[byterock]

I think it is one of either

'Oder of the Silly Joke Class II with Swords but without Star and Sash'

or

'Legion of the Staged Photo on Re-Assignment Class 6 with Swords and extra Big Cross'


During my short posting in Germany many many years ago I was invited to a party for a German officer who was selected to go to 'Staff School'

As part of the fun he was given an outrageous neck order (If memory serves me right it was the Crossed keys with broom handles) and a 19 place ribbon bar to go over his one ribbon so he would not fell out of place.

Maybe the tradition survived the war??