Originally posted by sjl
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The proof is here, in front of you, in the files from 20th February 1935. If the NS were going to erase him making the GPB out of their history, then why not the Blood order design, or the Design of the first-standarte, or any of the other items that he said he either designed or made? He did not forget to mention it in February of 1935. After all, the reason he was asked in to this interview, was to record everything he had done for the NSDAP, it was not coffee and biscuits with a friend and an informal chat !
Whats going on here is simple, not enough research, (if any?) has actually gone into Fuess.. and now it is turning into an Opinion based debate with people who have supposedly collected GPBs all their life, but realize that they lack the fundamentals, and have just assumed that because the name Fuess is on the back, it must come from him. Don't you remember the recent thread where i showed 9 different badges, all with different makers marks, BUT all made by the same sub-contractor? why should the GPB have been handled any different, esp. the Fuess badge, look at it, the enamel work is sometimes shoddy, the letters are basic and primitive, it`s a normal badge, and would most certainly not have been made under tight security. it would have been made like any other badge, hence the attachments always coming off
With the Golden HJ badge, there is proof that the Attachments were replaced later with a security pin style, due to the fact that so many were getting lost... what about the GPB ? no such law, people had to make there own, or get a jeweler to attach a chain and needle. The GPB is being taken way out of context, and placed on some pedestal that it should not be on, nothing special about it then or now.
Josef Fuess marked pin plate proves zero, BUT the Josef Fuess files prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Josef Fuess NEVER said that he designed, made, or had anything to do with the GPB on the 20th feb 1935. (Not in 1973, or after the war, at the most important time in the GPBs history) , those are solid, back and white facts, So if you, or anyone thinks otherwise, that's up to you, but in order to substantiate ANY statement that Fuess actually made them, you will need some evidence, and you dont have it, you only have the opposite.
Maybe someone could start by showing us another badge of any kind, marked Josef Fuess? You cant, because there are none, the man did not make badges, he made jewelery, in the same shop his grandson runs today, in the same place.
To be honest, if you want to believe that Mickey Mouse made them, thats fine with me, nothing will be achieved here, it is always the same, Even when you whack ppl over the shins with the facts, they still stick to opinion... THIS is why most of the Militaria books written today by collectors are so full of Sh** and opinion instead of fact. (Just like the heated debates on the Blutfahne thread) Conspiracy, opinion and jib-jab over actual facts, and common Logic.
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