Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Decoration, I Class For 25 Years certificate_of_authenticity BERLIN SW 29”

BERLIN SW 29”

After ten days at Abbeville

in addition to miscellaneous documents including an award document for a War Merit Cross Second Class with Swords dated 30 January 1944 and the medal on original ribbon affixed to a velvet backing

Fleet Marine Force Pacific (Iwo Jima) in 1945

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Decoration, I Class For 25 Years certificate_of_authenticity BERLIN SW 29”(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central oval medallion