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SS/SCHUTZSTAFFEL QUEDLINBURG SILVER COMMEM PLAQUE

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:275.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 925.00 USD
SS/SCHUTZSTAFFEL QUEDLINBURG SILVER COMMEM PLAQUE
SS/SCHUTZSTAFFEL QUEDLINBURG SILVER COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE MEDAL.
This is a silver edition of the commemorative plaque, salver, or non-portable award given out to SS personnel who accompanied Reichsfuhrer Heinrich on his famous visit to the Quedlinburg Cathedral where rest the remains of Heinrich I, "The Fowler," reign 919-936. Himmler, it has been said, believed himself to be a reincarnation of this, the greatest of the Saxon kings, who turned back the marauding hordes of Magyars from the east. On the 2nd of July 1936, Himmler, with a large contingent of SS leaders and persons of political importance converged on the old cathedral to lay an elaborate wreath at the gravesite. This, accompanied with a speech by the Reichsfuhrer praising Heinrich I as the savior of western Europe and the western culture-bearing stratum (Germanic peoples, who otherwise might have suffered worse than Rome did under the heel of the Barbarian hordes). He likened this with the mission of the SS which purportedly would now save "holy Europe from the barbarism of Bolshevism." The planchet medal is of genuine silver with pin back, and the detail fantastic. Several of these were found in a bombed-out jeweler's workshop in Berlin. They were made in pin form in copper and bronze as well, but this is the presentation grade given only to those officials who had attended and contributed to this auspicious occasion. Measures about 2 1/2 x 1 1/2. This is a beautiful and very historically significant piece from the SS ideology.
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