FAKE

Acomprehensive guideto collecting post warGermanWW2 1957De-NazifiedMilitary Decorations, their manufacturing techniques and detecting the fakes, valuations of originalTYPE 1 and TYPE 2 German decorations.The year of 1945 brought an absolute destruction to Germany and especially to the industrial military medal making center in Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden. Germans needed food, houses, clothes - the last thing they needed were medals and badges.The nucleus of the newly formed West GermanBundeswehr(Federal Defence Force)was created from those who had served in Hitler's legions during WW2. The West German government passed a new federal law in 1957 that specific Third Reich orderswere now permitted for wear without theSwastika. These are known as " German 1957 Award Pieces " these 1957 awards are official and genuine and are now becoming quite collectable.The main government contract to manufacture and supply these new de-nazified WW2 1957 official decorations went to the world famous German firm Steinhauer