Commemorative badge for the campaign against the Soviet Union
The commemorative badge for the campaign against the Soviet Union was a Slovak award, donated by President Jozef Tiso in 1943, which was awarded during the Second World War to members of the Slovak armed forces , but also to other people, if they had met the minimum requirements of the badge.
Graduation
The commemorative badge itself was donated in three stages and in the
- 1st stage in silver (silver-plated) awarded if the military person to be loaned had been personally involved in the fighting outside of Slovakia for at least 30 days or was part of a fighting Slovak unit within the framework of field units during the period mentioned.
- The second level, also in silver, but with a polished blade , was awarded if the military person had crossed the border into Slovakia, but was with units that had either not been involved in the fighting or had not been in the field for 30 days .
- The third stage in bronze was awarded to all those people who had contributed to the Eastern campaign for at least three months in their home country through service or work in soldier uniform or in the uniform of the work formation of the Ministry of Defense.
Appearance
The highly oval badge shows within a closed olive leaf wreath a sun rising behind a piece of the globe , indicated by six bundles of rays , which is represented by a lowered sword with the Christian cross on the crossguard . The tip of the sword is just smashing a Soviet star next to this already the broken symbols of Bolshevism , hammer and sickle . In front of the sword is a Slovak steel helmet with the Slovak double cross on the forehead and the date of the declaration of war on the Soviet Union ( 22.VI.1941 ) underneath . The 1st level of the badge was fully silver-plated, the 2nd level showed a silver wreath and a silver-plated sword with a polished blade, while the 3rd and lowest level was made of bronze. The commemorative badge was worn on the right side of the chest.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Uniform Zeitschrift, year 1943, issue 9, page 2, year 1944, issue 9, page 2, technical report by Dr. Ottfried Neubecker for the new foundation of Slovak orders