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NSDAP early booklet ID with photo and stamps - ww1 veteran from n.s Deutscher frontkampfer-bund stahlhem

NSDAP ID ausweis photo n.s Deutscher frontkampferbund stahlhem

NSDAP early booklet ID with photo and stamps - ww1 veteran from n.s Deutscher frontkampfer-bund stahlhem

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NSDAP early booklet ID with photo and stamps - ww1 veteran from n.s Deutscher frontkampfer-bund stahlhem

The Stahlhelm, League of Front Soldiers, was a military association during the Weimar Republic . It was founded shortly after the end of the First World War on December 25, 1918, by reserve officer Franz Seldte in Magdeburg . Seldte co-chaired the association with Theodor Duesterberg . The association was considered closely aligned with the anti-democratic German National People's Party (DNVP), and the Stahlhelm often provided (armed) security at its party meetings .

From 1933 onwards, the Stahlhelm was gradually brought into line by the National Socialists and dissolved in 1935. After the war, it was re-founded in 1951 as Der Stahlhelm – Kampfbund für Europa (The Steel Helmet – Combat League for Europe ).

On January 30, 1933, Stahlhelm leader Seldte joined Hitler's cabinet as Minister of Labor . Only through the support of conservatives such as Franz von Papen , Hugenberg, and Seldte, did President Hindenburg agree to appoint Hitler, whom he disliked, as Chancellor. Seldte joined the Nazi Party in April 1933. In August 1933, he became SA Obergruppenführer. He remained Reich Minister of Labor until 1945.

On February 11, the Stahlhelm merged with the DNVP to form the Kampffront Schwarz-Weiß-Rot (Black-White-Red Fighting Front) . This achieved only eight percent in the Reichstag elections of March 5. On March 24, all members of the Kampffront voted for Hitler's Enabling Act .

Allach himmler concentration camp Dachau Waffen SS candle holder Julleuchter

Allach himmler concentration camp Dachau Waffen SS candle holder Julleuchter

Allach himmler concentration camp Dachau Waffen SS candle holder Julleuchter

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Allach himmler concentration camp Dachau Waffen SS candle holder Julleuchter

The SS-Julleuchter was considered both an award and trophy of the German Schutzstaffel that was presented to members of the SS from approximately 1936 until 1944 as a service decoration. Manufactured by the Allach porcelain company, the SS Julleuchter was presented to any SS member who participated in a Julfest.

Heinrich Himmler originally had the intention to make the Julleuchter a standard gift to all SS members and there were no criteria attached to its presentation. For reasons which are not entirely clear, by the start of World War II, the Julleuchter had begun to be viewed as an SS decoration, and was entered as such in SS service records once the Julleuchter had been presented. However, as the SS-Julleuchter was considered "non-portable" (much like the Luftwaffe Honor Goblet), there was no outward display on an SS uniform indicating its presentation.

Apparently even as the Red Army was advancing and the fall of Berlin was in the foreseeable future, The Julleuchter was used during the decoration French volunteers in the Waffen-SS. One surviving soldier said, "In the light of a candle burning on a Julleuchter, a Jule Candlestick, symbolizing the never dying sunlight, Fenet decorated a number of comrades with the Iron Cross. Although simple, the ceremony that evening seemed all the more extraordinary."

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