Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Mint Police Long Service Award, III Class for 8 Years, with Case Republic of A bronzed metal (magntic) cross

A bronzed metal (magntic) cross pattée with crossed swords between the arms of the cross

In both Sydney and Melbourne

fictionalized by Ernest Hemingway in the short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro

each constructed of cardboard-reinforced golden-yellow wool and bearing four bands of silver aluminum wire piping

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Mint Police Long Service Award, III Class for 8 Years, with Case Republic of A bronzed metal (magntic) cross(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a 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 number 8 circumscribed by an