Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class with Period Case, by Glaser & Sohn Archive The interior of the side

The interior of the side walls is surrounded by a brown leather sweatband

a scarce commemorative badge to a Flemish youth collaborator

having been cleaned perhaps once during the mid 20th Century

becoming a lawyer in 1937

Rushing forward he reached the enemy trench in seconds and killed the sentry

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class with Period Case, by Glaser & Sohn Archive The interior of the side(Reichsfeuerwehr Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 22 June 1936 by Wilhelm Frick. (1936 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, consisting of a Geneva Cross with its arms joined through the quadrants by a circular ring bearing an obverse inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM FEUERLSCHWESEN (FOR MERIT IN FIRE FIGHTING), the obverse of the cross with white