Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years, by Alois Rettenmaier consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac January 1st 1943 he was

January 1st 1943 he was promoted to Obergefreiter

was presented as primary evidence in the Nuremberg Doctors Trial of 1948

the other slightly to the left of the pairing

sailing aboard the S

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years, by Alois Rettenmaier consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac January 1st 1943 he was(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from a postwar replacement ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central raised Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central oval