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2. Nazi memorabilia - Wikipedia

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   With the growing demands for Nazi memorabilia, many Jewish groups are disapproving the sale and purchase of Nazi products for leisure purposes. Others such as Haim Gertner, director of Israel's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, believe that some of the Nazi memorabilia are worth saving, claiming that anti-Semitic history shouldn't be forgotten. [5 ...

3. Orders, decorations, and medals of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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   Nazi awards and decorations were discontinued after the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, with display of the swastika banned. In 1957 the Federal Republic of Germany permitted qualifying veterans to wear many Nazi-era awards on the Bundeswehr uniform, including most World War II valor and campaign awards, [1] provided the swastika symbol was ...

4. Ranks and insignia of the German Army (1935–1945) - Wikipedia

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   For example, a Schulterklappe with rose-pink piping and number "4" would indicate the 4th Panzer Regiment; but if it carried a pink number "4" and letter "A" it would indicate the 4th Armored Reconnaissance (Aufklärungs) Battalion. The German Army used a very large assortment of Latin initials, Gothic initials, script ciphers, Arabic numerals ...

5. List of military awards and decorations of World War II

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   This list of military awards and decorations of World War II is an index to articles on notable military awards presented by the combatants during World War II This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

6. Awards and decorations of the German Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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   However, from 1957 West German regulations permitted the wear of many wartime awards in Bundeswehr uniform, [1] provided the swastika symbol was removed. [2] This led to the re-design of many awards with, for example, the swastika being replaced by a three-leafed oakleaf cluster on the Iron Cross. [ 3 ]

7. Orders, decorations, and medals of the Federal Republic of ...

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   Name (English/German) Creation date – cessation date: Description: Number awarded: Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg. Verdienstorden des Landes Baden-Württemberg. 26 November 1974 Outstanding contributions to the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, in politics, society, culture and economics. 1,989 (as of 2021) [1] Bavarian Order of Merit

8. Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts - Wikipedia

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   The Ukrainian collaborationist forces were composed of an estimated number of 180,000 volunteers serving with units scattered all over Europe. [6] Russian émigrés and defectors from the Soviet Union formed the Russian Liberation Army or fought as Hilfswillige within German units of the Wehrmacht primarily on the Eastern Front . [ 7 ]

9. Social Welfare Decoration - Wikipedia

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   This included service with the Winterhilfswerk, the National Socialist People's Welfare, medical and rescue work, or care of ethnic Germans. [1] It replaced the German Red Cross Decoration. [2] It was conferred in four classes, each consisting of a white-enamelled gold Balkenkreuz, with the Reich eagle and swastika in the centre, and a medal: [1]