Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Auction Measuring approximately 195 mm (w)

Measuring approximately 195 mm (w) x 255 mm (l) x 125 mm (h)

A portrait of Brüllau in plain clothes is riveted to the second page and stamped with two diagonally opposite stamps

He was appointed Acting Sergeant on August 1

Bätcher was captured by American troops in May 1945

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Auction Measuring approximately 195 mm (w)(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a silvered Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular and gilded oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black enameled swastika, the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised