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<p>[QUOTE="Fid, post: 508475, member: 7724"]every village festivity had medals made of Willi dem Hundskrüppel.</p><p>badges with winged wheels: used all over Europe by the different railway companies (except the UK that didn't belong to Europe). the railways of the different kingdoms in the Reich had sometimes crowns, sometimes not - remember that Germany was only united in 1871 in ... Versailles... so Bavaria, Baden etc. might have had a crown till 1918 when they finally disappeared (same btw for certain military stuff).</p><p><br /></p><p>badges with winged wheels <b>and thunderbolts</b>: electrically driven railways, ticker services on the railroad (military etc.) or simple tramways in the big cities. first trials in 1903.</p><p><br /></p><p>when in the same box most probaly before 1919. after 1933 practically all German badges etc. had a swastika integrated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fid, post: 508475, member: 7724"]every village festivity had medals made of Willi dem Hundskrüppel. badges with winged wheels: used all over Europe by the different railway companies (except the UK that didn't belong to Europe). the railways of the different kingdoms in the Reich had sometimes crowns, sometimes not - remember that Germany was only united in 1871 in ... Versailles... so Bavaria, Baden etc. might have had a crown till 1918 when they finally disappeared (same btw for certain military stuff). badges with winged wheels [B]and thunderbolts[/B]: electrically driven railways, ticker services on the railroad (military etc.) or simple tramways in the big cities. first trials in 1903. when in the same box most probaly before 1919. after 1933 practically all German badges etc. had a swastika integrated.[/QUOTE]
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