Price: 18.00 euro Size box: 11cm./4.3inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 175gr./6.1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR The plaque is probably stainless steel, non-magnetic and high glossy. The committee replaced the Association of Persecutors of the Nazi Regime (VVN), which had been dissolved in the DDR in 1953. It was an organization closely associated with the SED. Without being a member itself, the committee worked closely with the National Front. On the other side an image of Ernst Thalmann.
Plaque/table medal made in the DDR with the image of Karl Marx and with signature with his year of birth and death. Made of bronze. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German thinker and philosopher. He created the workers movement. His most important work is Das Kapital and the Communist Manifest. Bassicly he was the inventor of communism. His work and thoughts are called Marxism. Lenin was a strong believer of Marxism when he was turning Russia into the first communist state after the October Revolution in 1917. Friedrich Engels was his lifetime friend and was supporting Karl financially and publiced many of Karl Marx writings after the death of Karl.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 11.5cm./4.5inch. Size medal: 7.5cm./2.9inch. Weight: 156gr./5.5oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Tablemedal in wooden case made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Product group 61, hunting, sporting weapons, ammunition and accessories”, and on teh other side:”Grand Prix Leipzig 1968″.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. On the front of the medal is Olga Benario Prestes and dat eof birth and death. On the back it reads:”National memorial Ravensbruck”. Olga Benário Prestes (born Olga Gutmann Benario Munich, 1908-1942) was a German-Brazilian communist militant. In 1934 she escorted at the request of the Komintern Luís Carlos Pestes to Brazil, where the “Knight of Hope” wanted to start the revolution. They traveled disguised as a couple and soon fell in love with each other. In November 1935, however, the rebellion failed dramatically. They were betrayed and arrested. Shortly thereafter, Olga was deported to Germany by ship and delivered to the Gestapo. In 1938 she was deported to the Lichtenberg concentration camp and later to Ravensbrück, where, according to reports, she tried to maintain solidarity among the prisoners. Together with other Jewish prisoners, she was gassed on April 23, 1942. In a letter to her husband, who only received it years later, she writes: “I fought for the right, the good, and the best in this world”.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch. Weight: 70gr./2.4oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. Medal for 10 years of faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.
Price: 15.00 euro Size box: 11cm./4.3inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 164gr./5.7oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Metal trade. State-owned external and internal trading company of the GDR””, and on the back:”For loyal 25 years of work in the metal trade”.
Price: 15.00 euro Size box: 10.5cm./4.1inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 163gr./5.7oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
table medal made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Metallurgy trade. For excellent work”, and on the back:”Metaltrade. German Democratic Republic”.
Medal made in the DDR for services in the maritime industry. The silver edition. The medal came in three classes: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service), gold with honour clasp for woman (35 years of service), gold with honour clasp for man (40 years of service).
Medal made in the DDR for services in the maritime industry. The bronze edition. The medal came in three classes: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service), gold with honour clasp for woman (35 years of service), gold with honour clasp for man (40 years of service).
Price: 5,00 euro Size box: 8x6cm./3.1×2.3inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch. Weight: 44gr./1.5oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
This medal was issued in 1969 for faithful service as a reserve in the nation people’s army. The front of the medal says:”Reservist of the national people army”, the back of the medal says:”For protection of workers and farmers”. The medal came in three different types. Bronze: for serving 18-24 months Silver: for serving 2 to 10 years Gold: for serving more than 10 years
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8x6cm./3.1×2.3inch. Weight: 39gr./1.37oz. Year: 1986 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box made in 1986. The front of the medal reads:”30 Years Of People’s Army”. The back of the medal reads:”Firmly rooted in the people, led by the party, we fulfill the class mission. Forward to the XI party congress of the SED!”.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 11cm./4.3inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 42gr./1.48oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box. The silver edition. The front of the medal reads:”For many years of service”, and the back:”For the protection of workers and farmers”. The medal was awarded in four classes to employees of the Defense Industry: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service) and special gold (40 years of service for man, 25 years of service for woman).
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8×6cm./3.1×2.3inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch. Weight: 37gr./1.3oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. Pestalozzi medal for faithful services. The medal was awarded in three classes to teachers and educators of vacational and educational institutions of the DDR. Bronze (10 years), Silver (20 years), and bronze (30 years). Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland and wrote many works explaining his revolutionary modern principles of education. His motto was “Learning by head, hand and heart”. Thanks to Pestalozzi, illiteracy in 18th-century Switzerland was overcome almost completely by 1830.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8×6cm./3.1×2.3inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch. Weight: 37gr./1.3oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. Pestalozzi medal for faithful services. The medal was awarded in three classes to teachers and educators of vacational and educational institutions of the DDR. Bronze (10 years), Silver (20 years), and bronze (30 years). Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland and wrote many works explaining his revolutionary modern principles of education. His motto was “Learning by head, hand and heart”. Thanks to Pestalozzi, illiteracy in 18th-century Switzerland was overcome almost completely by 1830.
Price: 7.00 euro Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch. Weight: 39gr./1.3oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The gold edition. The back of the medal reads:”For services to the central youth object FDJ initiative Berlin”. This medal was issued by the FDJ. The Free German Youth, also known as the FDJ (in German Freie Deutsche Jugend), is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly it was the official youth movement of the DDR and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. The color blue was their primary colour. The organization was meant for young people, both male and female, between the ages of 14 and 25. In 1981 it had 2.3 million members. After being a member of the Thalmann Pioneers, which was for schoolchildren ages 6 to 14, East German youths would usually join the FDJ. Those who did not join lost access to organized holidays, and found it difficult to be admitted to universities, pursue chosen careers etc. The majority of youths who refused to join did so for religious reasons. While the movement was intended to promote Marxist–Leninist ideology among East Germany’s young people, it also arranged thousands of holidays for young people through its Jugendtourist agency, and ran discos and open air rock concerts.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch. Weight: 39gr./1.3oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The bronze edition. The back of the medal reads:”For services to the central youth object FDJ initiative Berlin”. This medal was issued by the FDJ. The Free German Youth, also known as the FDJ (in German Freie Deutsche Jugend), is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly it was the official youth movement of the DDR and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. The color blue was their primary colour. The organization was meant for young people, both male and female, between the ages of 14 and 25. In 1981 it had 2.3 million members. After being a member of the Thalmann Pioneers, which was for schoolchildren ages 6 to 14, East German youths would usually join the FDJ. Those who did not join lost access to organized holidays, and found it difficult to be admitted to universities, pursue chosen careers etc. The majority of youths who refused to join did so for religious reasons. While the movement was intended to promote Marxist–Leninist ideology among East Germany’s young people, it also arranged thousands of holidays for young people through its Jugendtourist agency, and ran discos and open air rock concerts.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 9x6cm./3.5×1.9inch. Size small plaque: 6×2.7cm./2.3x1inch. Size big plaque: 132cm./2.3inch. Weight: 68gr./4.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The front of the smaller plaque reads:”5 years collective german soviet friendship”. The Society for German–Soviet Friendship (in German, Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft/DSF) was an East German organization set up to encourage closer co-operation between the German Democratic Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was founded as the Society for the Studies of Soviet Culture to teach about Russian culture to Germans unfamiliar with it. It quickly turned into a propaganda tool and eventually changed its name. Due to the immense popularity of Mikhail Gorbachev with ordinary East Germans disillusioned with their own hardline Communist leaders, the DSF’s membership grew massively in the last years of the regime which many interpret as a sign of support of Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika. In 1989 there were 6.3 million members.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8.5cm./3.3inch. Size medal: 4.4×3cm./1.7×1.1inch. Weight: 68gr./2.oz. Year: 1989 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR, 1989. The back of the medal reads:”For services to the German Democratic Republic”. This medal of honor was awarded on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the DDR.
Price: 6.50 euro Size box: 8.5cm./3.3inch. Size medal: 4.5×3.2cm./1.7×1.2inch. Weight: 68gr./2.oz. Year: 1979 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR, 1979. The back of the medal reads:”For merits in founding and consolidating the DDR”. This medal of honor was awarded on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the DDR.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.18inch. Weight: 32gr./1.12oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The front of the medal reads:”For very good performance in the socialist job competition”, and on the back there is a quote by Lenin:”Learn, learn and learn some more”.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 11cm./4.3inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 42gr./1.48oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box. The bronze edition. The front of the medal reads:”For many years of service”, and the back:”For the protection of workers and farmers”. The medal was awarded in four classes to employees of the Defense Industry: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service) and special gold (40 years of service for man, 25 years of service for woman).
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch. Size medal: 4.2x3cm./1.6×1.1inch. Weight: 34gr./1.19oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box. The text above the medal reads:”Badge of honor”, and below that:”Organs of the administration of justice in the DDR”.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. The front of the medal reads:”National memorial ravensbruck”. The back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”. Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located near the village of Ravensbrück. Of 132,000 women who were in the camp during the war includes about 48,500 from Poland, 28,000 from the Soviet Union, almost 24,000 from Germany and Austria, nearly 8,000 from France, and thousands from other countries including a few from the United Kingdom and the United States. More than 20,000 of the total were Jewish, approximately 15%. 85% were from other races and cultures. More than 80 percent were political prisoners. Many prisoners were employed as slave labor by Siemens & Halske. From 1942 to 1945, the Nazis undertook medical experiments to test the effectiveness of sulfonamides. In the spring of 1941, the SS established a small adjacent camp for male inmates, who built and managed the camp’s gas chambers in 1944. Of some 130,000 female prisoners who passed through the Ravensbrück camp, about 50,000 perished; some 2,200 were killed in the gas chambers.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Werner Seelenbinder. Werner Seelenbinder (1904-1944) was a German communist and wrestler. In 1928 and 1929 he won the Spartakiad in Moscow; over 200 German sportsmen were banned from the contest, but Seelenbinder, with his interest in Marxism, took part. His first trip to Moscow had already persuaded him to become a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1933 he refused to give the Nazi salute when receiving his medal at the German Wrestling Championship and was punished with a sixteen-month ban on training and sports events. As a committed communist Seelenbinder was appalled by the 1936 Olympic Games that were to be held in Nazi Germany. He had originally planned to boycott it, but friends persuaded him to compete anyway, win, and defy the Nazis by not giving the required Nazi salute, but to use a vulgar gesture instead. This plan was foiled when he lost the first match. Seelenbinder’s illegal activities as a courier and his participation in the Uhrig Group had caught the attention: he was arrested, along with 65 other members of the group, on 4 February 1942 and after being tortured for eight days, and enduring nine camps and prisons for two and half years, he was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof, he was executed for treason on 24 October 1944 at Brandenburg-Görden Prison. He was beheaded with an ax.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Central youth object. FDJ initiative Berlin”. In the DDR, a youth object was a form of temporary task assigned to a youth collective, which was often initiated and organized by the leadership of the SED or the youth association FDJ. These tasks could arise from the areas of industry, agriculture, construction, science, teaching and research or education in general. Every state-owned enterprise (VEB), every agricultural production cooperative (LPG), and even every administrative unit, had their own youth objects. For example, in 1974 a total of 854,912 young people worked on 68,370 youth objects.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”First president of the German worker and farmer state”, and the back of the medal reads:”German Democratic republic”. The head on the front of the medal is Wilhelm Pieck. Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (1876-1960) was a German communist politician. In 1949, he became the first, and only President of the German Democratic Republic, and the office was abolished upon his death. His successor as head of state was the collective Council of State, whose chairman, and thus most prominent member, was SED First Secretary Walter Ulbricht. In 1919 Pieck, along with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht was arrested in Berlin for their political activities. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were then killed while “being taken to prison” . While the two were being murdered, Pieck managed to escape.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 5.7cm./2.2inch. Weight: 77gr./2.7oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. On the top of the front of the medal it reads:”Protect and help”, beneath that:”Civil protection”. The back of the medal reads:”Ready to work and to protect the homeland”. The Civil defense of the DDR was an organization for the protection of the population, the economy, vital facilities and cultural values against the consequences of disasters and accidents. In the event of war, it should also serve to protect its own population from military operations.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 10.5×8.5cm./4.1×3.3inch. Size medal: 3.2cm./1.25inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Fighters against fascism”, and the back reads:”Forward and don’t forget”. They started making this medal in 1958 and was awarded for involvement in the resistance against the Nazi regime in 1933-1945.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 10.5×8.5cm./4.1×3.3inch. Size medal: 3.2cm./1.25inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Fighter against the reaction”, and the back of the medal reads:”Freedom, peace and socialism”. The rifle with the red flag is the symbol of the KDA. The Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse, KDA) was a paramilitary organization in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1953 to 1989. The KDA served for the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany composed of party members and politically reliable working people, based on dictatorship of the proletariat principles, to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. The KDA was a civil reserve force tied to the GDR’s Ministry of the Interior and the Volkspolizei, reaching 211,000 personnel at its peak in 1980. The KDA was disbanded after the opening of the Berlin Wall in late 1989.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.18inch. Weight: 61gr./2.15oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
DDR medal, gold class. The medal was awarded in three classes, gold, silver and bronze, for faithful fulfillment of duties and recognition of exemplary achievements in the ranks of the combat groups of the DDR.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.57inch. Weight: 43gr./1.51oz. Year: 1956 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR, 1956. The text on the medal reads:”German Gymnastics And Sports Festival, 1956”. This was the 2nd. festival. The Gymnastics and Sports Festival of the DDR took place from 1954 to 1987 a total of eight times. The first German gymnastics and sports festival took place on the festival meadow next to the planned central stadium, in the stadium of peace and Bruno-Plache Stadium. With the 2nd festival it moved to the new central stadium, which was opened in 1956 in Leipzich. Here, as with all the following festivals, the main events took place: a sports show raised as a sporty propaganda event, often a football international game, an international athletics event and a magnificent closing event. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR. Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities. Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. Year: 1978 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR, 1978. The front of the medal reads:”For the protection of workers and peasant power”, and the back:”Combatgroups of the working class, 25 Years 1953-1978″. The Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse, KDA) was a paramilitary organization in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1953 to 1989. The KDA served for the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany composed of party members and politically reliable working people, based on dictatorship of the proletariat principles, to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. The KDA was a civil reserve force tied to the GDR’s Ministry of the Interior and the Volkspolizei, reaching 211,000 personnel at its peak in 1980. The KDA was disbanded after the opening of the Berlin Wall in late 1989.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. Year: 1989 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR, 1989. The front of the medal reads:”Day of the miner and the energy worker of the DDR”. On the back of the medal there is VEB “Volkseigener Betrieb” wich means Publicly Owned Enterprise. Many company had the title VEB. In this case it was a oil and gas company.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. On the frotn there is the image of Ernst Schneller. Ernst Schneller (1890-1944) was a German school teacher. In 1914 he volunteered to join the army when war broke out. Sent to fight on the Eastern Front, he became politicised and radicalised, especially as the ideas behind the Russian Revolution filtered through to the German troops. After the war he joined first the Social Democratic Party and then, in 1920, the recently launched Communist Party of Germany. He was arrested in 1933 and imprisoned. Transfer to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp followed in 1939 were he was shot dead in 1944. The text on the back of the medal shows the Concentrationcamp Sachsenhausn memorial. The text reads:”national Reminder And Memorial”.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Karl Marx. The text on the back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German thinker and philosopher. He created the workers movement. His most important work is Das Kapital and the Communist Manifest. Bassicly he was the inventor of communism. His work and thoughts are called Marxism. Lenin was a strong believer of Marxism when he was turning Russia into the first communist state after the October Revolution in 1917. Friedrich Engels was his lifetime friend and was supporting Karl financially and publiced many of Karl Marx writings after the death of Karl.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. On the front there is the image of Ernst Thalmann. Thalmann (1886-1944) was a German communist politician. He was leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. A committed Stalinist, Thalmann played a major role in the political instability of the Weimar Republic in its final years, when the KPD explicitly sought the overthrow of the liberal democracy of the republic. Under his leadership the KPD became intimately associated with the government of the Soviet Union and the policies of Joseph Stalin, and from 1928 the party was largely controlled and funded by Stalin’s government. The KPD under Thalmann’s leadership regarded the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as Social fascists. Thalmann viewed the Nazi Party as a lesser evil than the social democrats, and in 1931 his party cooperated with the Nazis in an attempt to bring down the social democrat state government. Thalmann believed that a Nazi dictatorship would fail due to flawed economic policies and lead to a revolutionary situation in which the communist party gained power. Thalmann was also leader of the paramilitary Roter Frontkampferbund, which was banned as extremist by the governing social democrats in 1929, and in 1932 he established Antifaschistische Aktion or Antifa, which concentrated its attacks on the social democrats. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years; Stalin did not seek his release when he entered into the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, and Thalmann’s party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Many of Thalmann’s closest associates who had emigrated to the Soviet Union were executed during the Great Purge of the 1930s. Thalmann was shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler’s personal orders in 1944. In the First World War he was posted to the artillery on the western front, where he stayed till the end of the war, during the course of which he was wounded twice. He said that he fought in the following battles: Battle of Champagne (1915–1916), Battle of the Somme (1916), Second battle of the Aisne, Battle of Soissons, Battle of Cambrai (1917) and Battle of Arras (1917).
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. On the front of the medal there is an image of Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher. Von Blucher (1742-1819) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal). He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. On the back of the medal there is the Battle Of Nations monument.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. Year: 1987 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR, 1987. “Oebisfelde” is a city in Germany. The text on the back of the medal reads:”105 Years Of Volunteer Fire Brigade 1882-1987″.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Friedrich Engels. Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was a German philosopher, historian, communist, social scientist, sociologist, journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of large textile factories in England. Engels developed what is now known as Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in English cities. In 1848, Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works. Later, Engels supported Marx financially, allowing him to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx’s death, Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital. Additionally, Engels organised Marx’s notes on the Theories of Surplus Value, which were later published as the “fourth volume” of Das Kapital. In 1884, he published The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State on the basis of Marx’s ethnographic research.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. On the front there is a image of Lenin with his birth year and year of death. The text on the back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 11cm./4.3inch. Size medal: 6.5cm./2.5inch. Weight: 120gr./4.2oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR with the Buchenwald Memorial Tower. Made of porcelain. In keeping with a DDR government resolution, construction of the “Nationale Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Buchenwald” (“National Buchenwald Memorial”) got underway in 1954. By 1958, a monumental national memorial had been erected on the south slope of the Ettersberg. Three mass graves were incorporated into the design. The complex was conceived in such a way as to guide the visitors along a path from death to life: beginning at the crematorium and leading through the camp, the path then descends to the graves, and finally ascends to the bell tower as a symbol of freedom and light. The German Communist members of the resistance are the central element.
Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Johannes Brecher. The medal has been touched by time. The text on the back of the medal reads:”For excellent cultural policies”. Johannes Robert Becher (1891-1958) was a German politician, novelist, and poet. He was affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) before World War II. At one time, he was part of the literary avant-garde, writing in an expressionist style. With the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, modernist artistic movements were suppressed. Becher escaped from a military raid in 1933 and settled in Paris for a couple of years. He migrated to the Soviet Union in 1935 with the central committee of the KPD. After the end of World War II, Becher left the Soviet Union and returned to Germany, settling in the Soviet-occupied zone that later became East Berlin. As a member of the KPD, he was appointed to various cultural and political positions and became part of the leadership of the Socialist Unity Party. In 1949, he helped found the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin, and served as its president from 1953 to 1956. In 1953 he was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (later the Lenin Peace Prize). He was the culture minister of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1954 to 1958.
Table medal made in the DDR. On the medal is the Soviet War memorial wich stands in Treptower park in Berlin. The medal is made in the cold war era and made of plastic. The war memorial and military cemetery is in Berlin’s Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949. The Memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany. The soldier is Nikolai Masalov who is standing on a broken swastika and holding a child. In WWII Masalov saved a German girl who was seperated from her mother.
Table medal made in the DDR. The medal has got patina on it. The text on teh back of the medal reads:”For excellent performance in fulfilling the legacy and care of the heritage of antifascist rfighters”.
Medal made in the DDR from dark porcelain. The text on the front of the medal reads:”VEB Kombinat electroprojects and plant constructions”, and on teh back of the medal it reads:”For outstanding new services”. VEB Kombinat Robotron (or simply Robotron) was the biggest East German electronics manufacturer. It was based in Dresden and employed 68,000 people (1989). It produced personal computers, as well as home computers, radios and television sets. The company was active from 1969 to 1990 during the period when Dresden was in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It had the legal forms, Volkseigener Betrieb (VEB) and Kombinat, specific to the GDR. It was under the direct control of the then East German government.
Medal made in the DDR, 1985, made from porcelain. The text in the box reads:”To Remember” with teh names of the Chief Editor and the Publishing Director. On the front of the medal the text reads:”40 years (1945-1985) Schwerin People’s Newspaper” and on the back of the medal it reads:”825 Year (1160-1985) Schwerin”. Schwerin was and is also a city.
Table medal made in the DDR. This medal is in silver but also comes in bronze. The front of the medal reads:”Berlin transport company”, and the back of the medal reads:”For Excellent Service. Taxi, subway, tram, bus. The White Fleet”.
Table medal made in the DDR. This medal is bronze but comes also in silver. The front of the medal reads:”Berlin transport company”, and the back of the medal reads:”For Excellent Service. Taxi, subway, tram, bus. The White Fleet”.
Table medal made in the DDR during the cold war era and made of porcelain. The text in the box reads:”State insurance of the German democratic republic”. The text on the front of the medal reads:”For exemplary damage prevention”, and on the back:”State insurance of the DDR”.
Table medal made in the DDR. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR. Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities. Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
Table medal made in the DDR, 1977. The text on the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic, Leipzig, 1954”. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR. Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities. Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
Table medal made in the DDR, 1954. The text on the medal reads:”German Gymnastics And Sports Festival, 1954”. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR. Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities. Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
Table medal made in the DDR, 1969. The text on the medal reads:”German Gymnastics And Sports Festival, DDR, Leipzig, 1969”. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR. Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities. Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”German Gymnastics And Sports Festival, DTSB”. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR. Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities. Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
Table medal from the DDR. The text on the medal raeds:”Fritz Behn (1904-1944) Ciommemorative Plaque”, and on the back:”Fritz Behn company school. For exemplary performance”. Fritz Behn (1904-1944) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism. Behn spent his childhood in poor conditions on Usedom. After completing compulsory schooling in a one-class village school, he worked in Westphalia for several years and became a carpenter. In 1924 he became a member of the SPD and returned to his homeland. Disappointed with the SPD’s coalition policy, he switched to the KPD (Communist party Germany) in in the spring of 1927. Behn became a KPD speaker and appeared at many village meetings in. In March 1933 he was imprisoned in prison for a few weeks. Nonetheless, he continued to resist after his release. During the Second World War he was drafted into a naval construction battalion and from the summer of 1941 deployed in the Leningrad section of the front. With other war and Nazi opponents in his unit, he secretly formed an anti-fascist soldier group, which developed into a Wehrmacht group of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD). They were in contact with the Russian teacher Vasily Grigoryevich Titov, who led a local resistance group. He made it possible for them to hear the German-language broadcasts on Radio Moscow. The resistance group spread this news among the soldiers of the Wehrmacht in their area. Behn also handed over plans for the military objects on the Baltic coast to Titow. In August 1943, eight members of the NKFD group were arrested after being denounced. A court martial sentenced Fritz Behn to be shot dead on January 6, 1944 in the dunes near Tallinn. Titov and at least 40 other Soviet citizens were hanged without trial soon after their arrest.
Price: 5.00 euro Size: 3cm./1.1inch. Weight: 17gr./0.59oz.
Medal made in the DDR for Faithful Service in Health and Social Services. The medal came in 3 variations, bronze, silver and gold. For 10, 20 or 30 years of service.
This medal was issued in 1969 for faithful service as a reserve in the nation people’s army. The front of the medal says:”Reservist of the national people army”, the back of the medal says:”For protection of workers and farmers”. The medal came in three different types. Bronze: for serving 18-24 months Silver: for serving 2 to 10 years Gold: for serving more than 10 years
Medal made in the DDR. Medal of Merit of the Border Troops of the DDR the gold one. The text on the medal reads:”For excellent service border troops” and the back of the medal reads:”For the protection of workers and farmers”. The medal was awarded in 3 classes for outstanding achievements and personal dedication in maintaining the security of the borders of the GDR. In bronze, silver and gold. Also for political and military leadership as well as for education and training.
Medal made in the DDR. The image on the medal is Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803). The back of the medal reads:”Society For German Soviet Friendship”. Johann Gottfried Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. The medal was awarded to Russian teachers for outstanding achievements in the subject of Russian. It was also awarded to high school graduates, students and apprentices for excellence in Russian. The medal came in 3 levels: bronze, silver and gold.
Medal made in the DDR. The image on the medal is Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803). The back of the medal reads:”Society For German Soviet Friendship”. Johann Gottfried Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. The medal was awarded to Russian teachers for outstanding achievements in the subject of Russian. It was also awarded to high school graduates, students and apprentices for excellence in Russian. The medal came in 3 levels: bronze, silver and gold.
Medal made in the DDR. The image on the medal is Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803). The back of the medal reads:”Society For German Soviet Friendship”. Johann Gottfried Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. The medal was awarded to Russian teachers for outstanding achievements in the subject of Russian. It was also awarded to high school graduates, students and apprentices for excellence in Russian. The medal came in 3 levels: bronze, silver, gold.
Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the plaque reads:”Our cities and communities are more beautiful. Take part”. The text in the box reads:”For excellence in competition”.
Table medal made in the DDR. The text in the box reads:”Party High School Karl Marx”. the figure on the medal is Ernst Thalmann. Who was leader of the Communist Party in Germany from 1925 until 1933. The Party Academy Karl Marx (Parteihochschule Karl Marx) was an academy (Hochschule) that was founded in 1946 in the Soviet occupation zone. Teaching ceased on 30 June 1990. During its existence, the academy offered studies and classes to more than 25,000 students. Among them were more than 1,200 students from socialist countries that had friendly ties with the DDR. Studies offered were Marxist-Leninist throughout. Numerous publications, both scientific and propagandist, were released. Members of the Socialist Unity Party and its organizations were delegated to studies of either one or three years duration, finishing as Diplom-Gesellschaftswissenschaftler (equivalent to a Bachelor in Social Sciences).
Table medal made in the DDR. Made for celebrating 60 yeats of October revolution, made in 1977. On teh front of the medal there is Lenin and the text:”Competition in honor of 60 years of Red October” and the back of the medal reads:”Joint action by the district board DSF and the district board FDGB”. The DSF was a German and Soviet friendship organisation and the FDGB was the sole union organisation of the DDR.
Medal made in the DDR. Made for the 60th, anniversary of the October Revolution wich took place in 1917. The back of the mdeal reads:”60th, anniversary of the great October Revolution”. On teh medal is the winterpalace in St. Petersburg, the location were the October Revolution started.
(3.21) Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch. Weight: 33gr./1.1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. Made for the 60th, anniversary of the October Revolution wich took place in 1917. The back of the mdeal reads:”60th, anniversary of the great October Revolution”. The Aurora was made in 1903 and most of the crew joined the Bolshevics who were preparing a communist revolution led by Lenin in 1917. This ship fired the first shot signalling the start of the October revolution. In WWII the guns was taken off the ship to use it for the defence of Leningrad. After the war the Aurora was a navy training vessel and later, till this day, a museum located at St. Petersburg (formaly known as Leningrad).
Medal made in the DDR. Made for the 60th, anniversary of the October Revolution wich took place in 1917. The back of the mdeal reads:”60th, anniversary of the great October Revolution”. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Medal made in the DDR for service in the German post company. the text on the medal reads:”For excellent service at the German post”. This medal came in 3 classes, 10 years (bronze), 20 years (silver and 30 years (gold).
Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Wilhlem Pieck. The back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”. Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (1876-1960) was a German communist politician. In 1949, he became the first, and only President of the German Democratic Republic, and the office was abolished upon his death. His successor as head of state was the collective Council of State, whose chairman, and thus most prominent member, was SED First Secretary Walter Ulbricht. In 1919 Pieck, along with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht was arrested in Berlin for their political activities. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were then killed while “being taken to prison” . While the two were being murdered, Pieck managed to escape.
Medal made in the DDR. Medal of Merit of the Border Troops of the DDR the bronze one. The text on the medal reads:”For excellent service border troops” and the back of the medal reads:”For the protection of workers and farmers”. The medal was awarded in 3 classes for outstanding achievements and personal dedication in maintaining the security of the borders of the GDR. In bronze, silver and gold. Also for political and military leadership as well as for education and training.
Medal made in the DDR. Medal for faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For 5 Years Of Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.
Medal made in the DDR. Medal for faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For 15 Years Of Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.
Medal made in the DDR. Medal for Excellence in the Armed Organs of the Interior Ministry. The medal was awarded in a single class for excellent performance of tasks, in particular in the strengthening and consolidation of the DDR. The order was established in 1959.
Gold medal of the DDR for excellent service by the Ministry Of Interiour.The front of the medal says:”For excellent service” The back of the medal has got the Coat of Arms of the DDR surrounded with laurel. This medal came in 3 types; bronze, silver and gold.
Silver medal of the DDR for excellent service by the Ministry Of Interiour.The front of the medal says:”For excellent service” The back of the medal has got the Coat of Arms of the DDR surrounded with laurel. This medal came in 3 types; bronze, silver and gold.
Medal made in the DDR. Medal for faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For 30 Years Of Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.
Medal made in the DDR. Medal for faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For 25 Years Of Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.
Medal made in the DDR. Medal for faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For 20 Years Of Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.
Table medal from the DDR. The text on the plaque says:”Honorary gift from the secretariat district management SED Karl Marx Stadt”. The SED was the ruling communist party of East Germany. On the first medal there is Fritz Heckert. Friedrich (Fritz) Carl Heckert (1884-1936) was a German politician, co-founder of the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany and a leading member of the Communist International (Comintern). He also briefly served as the Saxon Minister of Economy in 1923. The text on the back of the medal reads:”Revolutionary Leader Of The Proletarians District Karl Marx City”. On the second medal there is Ernst Schneller. Ernst Schneller (1890-1944) was a German school teacher. In 1914 he volunteered to join the army when war broke out. Sent to fight on the Eastern Front, he became politicised and radicalised, especially as the ideas behind the Russian Revolution filtered through to the German troops. After the war he joined first the Social Democratic Party and then, in 1920, the recently launched Communist Party of Germany. He was arrested in 1933 and imprisoned. Transfer to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp followed in 1939. On 11 October 1944 Ernst Schneller was one of 24 German camp inmates deemed culpable of “illegal activities”, taken out, and together with three French antifascists shot dead by the SS. The back of the medal reads:”Revolutionary Leader Of The Proletarians District Karl Marx City”. On the third medal there is Clara Zetkin. Clara Zetkin was a German womans rights activist in the socialist and communist womans rights movement (1857-1933). She was and is still honoured by the Clara Zetkin park in Leipzich, the Clara Zetkin museum in Birkenwerder and the Clara Zetkin clothing factory in Moscow. The back of the medal reads:”Revolutionary Leader Of The Proletarians District Karl Marx City”.
Price: 15.00 euro Size box: 9cm./3.5inch. Weight: 129gr./4.5oz.
Table medal from the DDR. The front of the medal reads:”For The Protection Of The Worker And The Farmer”, and the back reads:”Party Led Working Class Loyal To The Soviet Union, Allied Forever”.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 10cm./3.9inch. Weight: 132gr./4.6oz.
Table medal from the DDR made in 1982. The front of the medal reads:”100 Years Robotron, Reiss” and on the back:”VEB Robotron Electronics And Drawimg Devices”. VEB Kombinat Robotron (or simply Robotron) was the biggest East German electronics manufacturer. It was based in Dresden and employed 68,000 people (1989). It produced personal computers, as well as home computers, radios and television sets. The company was active from 1969 to 1990 during the period when Dresden was in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It had the legal forms, Volkseigener Betrieb (VEB) and Kombinat, specific to the GDR. It was under the direct control of the then East German government.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 12cm./4.7inch. Weight: 197gr./6.9oz.
Table medal from the DDR made in 1974. The text on the medal reads:”25 Years German Democratic Republic”. And the back of the medal says:”Presented By The Council Of Eisenach”. Eisenach is a town in Germany.
Price: 10.00 euro Size: 9cm./3.5inch. Weight: 166gr./5.8oz.
Medal from the DDR. On the front of the medal there is the image of the enormous monument in Treptower park in Berlin. Its prominent feature is the Soviet War Memorial built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It was opened four years after the war ended, on May 8, 1949. The front of the medal says:”Soviet Memorial Berlin Treptow”. The back of the medal says:”Berlin, Capital Of The DDR”.
(12.5.20) Price: 12.50 euro Size: 10×9.5cm./3.9×3.7inch. Weight: 99gr./3.4oz.
Medal DDR in it’s original box. The front of the medal reads:”Performance Recognition Of The Reservists NVA” and on the back:”For The Protection Of Workers And Farmers”. The National People’s Army (NVA) was the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1956 to 1990. The NVA was formed in 1956 to succeed the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People’s Police) and influenced by the Soviet Army, becoming one of the Warsaw Pact militaries opposing NATO during the Cold War. The majority of NATO officers rated the NVA the best military in the Warsaw Pact based on discipline, thoroughness of training, and the quality of officer leadership. The NVA did not see significant combat but participated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, deployed military advisors to communist governments in other countries, and manned the Berlin Wall where they were responsible for numerous deaths. The NVA was dissolved in 1990 and its facilities and equipment were handed over to the Bundeswehr (the armed forces of West Germany), which also absorbed most of its personnel below the rank of non-commissioned officer.
Price: 6.00 euro Size: 6x6cm./2.5×2.5inch. Weight: 45gr./1.5oz.
Table medal for celebrating the 30th. year of the SED, the ruling party of the DDR. Made in 1976. The front of the medal reads:”Socialist Union Party” and the back reads:”The Party Is For The People”. The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the governing Marxist–Leninist political party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the country’s foundation in October 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. The party was established in April 1946. The GDR was a one-party state but other institutional popular front parties were permitted to exist in alliance with the SED, these parties being the Christian Democratic Union, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Farmers’ Party, and the National Democratic Party. The SED made the teaching of Marxism-Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools. In the 1980s, the SED rejected the liberalisation policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, such as perestroika and glasnost, which would lead to the GDR’s isolation from the restructuring USSR and the party’s downfall in the autumn of 1989.
(15.20) Price: 15.00 euro Size: 13×9.5cm./5.1×3.7inch. Weight: 156gr./5.5oz.
Table medal from the DDR of the National People’s Army. The text on the medal holder reads:”National People’s Army. City Command Capital DDR Berlin”. The front of the medal reads:”Berlin. Capital Of The DDR”. The back of the medal reads:”For The Protection Of The Workers And Farmers”.
Price: 15.00 euro Size: 13×9.5cm./5.1×3.7inch. Weight: 114gr./4oz.
Table medal from the DDR of the National People’s Army. The text on the medal holder reads:”National People’s Army. City Command Capital DDR Berlin”. The front of the medal reads:”Berlin. Capital Of The DDR”. The back of the medal reads:”For The Protection Of The Workers And Farmers”.
Price: 25.00 euro Size: 18×12.5cm./7×4.9inch. Weight: 346gr./12.2oz.
Table medals in original box. 6 medals showing various government organizations such as the fire department, customs, railway police, traffic police, coast guard, and the border patrol. On the back of each medal it reads:”For The Protection Of Workers And Farmers”.
Price: 12.50 euro Size: 9×8.5cm./3.5×3.3inch. Weight: 91gr./3.2oz.
Medal from the DDR. In it’s original box and with inlay. Made in 1982. The thext on the medal reads:”30 Years Of Political Bodies In The Railway Industry” and on the back:”For Excellent Party Work In The Railway Industry”.
Price: 25.00 euro Size: 17x15cm./6.6×5.9inch. Weight: 457gr./16.1oz.
Table medal from the DDR with a porcelain plate. This medal was rewarded when a person reached a 60 year membership of the SED, the ruling party of the DDR. The text in the box says:”Awarded By The Committee Of The Socialistic Unityparty Germany For 60 Year Membership Of The Workersparty”. The image on teh porcelain plate is probably Wilhelm Pieck, first chairman of the SED.
Price: 15.00 euro Size: 11cm./4.3inch. Weight: 184gr./6.4oz.
Table medal from the DDR. The inlay reads:”Party School Karl Liebknecht at the Committee of the SED (Socialist Unity Party)”. The Karl Liebknecht School was the party school of the German Communist Party. Mainly it provides courses and seminars on Marxist theory for members of the party and people interested in Marxism. Introductory courses in Scientific Socialism, Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism are held. The school is named after the socialist and co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany, Karl Liebknecht.
Price: 12.50 euro Size: 10cm./3.9inch. Weight: 122gr./4.3oz.
Table medal from The DDR with the image of Ernst Thalmann. Ernst Thalmann (1886-1944) was a German communist politician. He was leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. A committed Stalinist, Thalmann played a major role in the political instability of the Weimar Republic in its final years, when the KPD explicitly sought the overthrow of the liberal democracy of the republic. Under his leadership the KPD became intimately associated with the government of the Soviet Union and the policies of Joseph Stalin, and from 1928 the party was largely controlled and funded by Stalin’s government. The KPD under Thalmann’s leadership regarded the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as Social fascists. Thalmann viewed the Nazi Party as a lesser evil than the social democrats, and in 1931 his party cooperated with the Nazis in an attempt to bring down the social democrat state government. Thalmann believed that a Nazi dictatorship would fail due to flawed economic policies and lead to a revolutionary situation in which the communist party gained power. Thalmann was also leader of the paramilitary Roter Frontkampferbund, which was banned as extremist by the governing social democrats in 1929, and in 1932 he established Antifaschistische Aktion or Antifa, which concentrated its attacks on the social democrats. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years; Stalin did not seek his release when he entered into the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, and Thalmann’s party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Many of Thalmann’s closest associates who had emigrated to the Soviet Union were executed during the Great Purge of the 1930s. Thalmann was shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler’s personal orders in 1944. In the First World War he was posted to the artillery on the western front, where he stayed till the end of the war, during the course of which he was wounded twice. He said that he fought in the following battles: Battle of Champagne (1915–1916), Battle of the Somme (1916), Second battle of the Aisne, Battle of Soissons, Battle of Cambrai (1917) (1917) and Battle of Arras (1917).
Price: 17.50 euro Size: 15x12cm./5.9×4.7inch. Weight: 266gr./9.3oz.
Table medal from the DDR. The text on the medal says:”Border troops of the DDR”. The medal is showing a map of East Germany and a hand holding a rifle. The medal is made of porcelain and still in it’s original box.
Price: 10.00 euro Size: 9cm./3.5inch. Weight: 85gr./2.9oz.
Table medal from the DDR in it’s original box. The front of the medal reads:”Securing The State Border” and the back reads:”For The Protection Of Workers And Farmers”.
Price: 6.00 euro Size: 7x5cm./2.7×1.9inch. Weight: 26gr./0.9oz.
Medal that came in 3 issues. Gold, silver and bronze. This is the “Gold” issue. The text on the medal reads:”Badge Of Honor”” and beneath that:”For Excellent Work In Socialistic Education”. In it’s original box.
Price: 7.50 euro Size: 9×5.5cm./3.5×2.1inch. Weight: 50gr./1.7oz.
Silver medal from the DDR for 20 years of service as a volunteer firefighter. This medal came in 4 classes: Bronze 10 years of service Silver 20 years of service Gold 30 years of service Gold with clasp 40 years of service
