National Recognition Medal

The medal of national recognition was donated on July 24, 1968 by Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg and was intended to be awarded to people who had come to the aid of resistance fighters and others persecuted by the enemy under difficult conditions during the Second World War .

The round medal made of bronze shows two hands that protect a group of persecuted people. Barbed wire , a cross , prison bars and a destroyed house are also to be seen as further symbols . In the right semicircle of the medal the years 1940 1945 . These represent the time when the country was occupied by the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

On the back there is the two-line inscription RECONNAISSANCE NATIONALE GRAND-DUCHÉ DE LUXEMBOURG (National Recognition Grand Duchy of Luxembourg), which is enclosed by five narrow rings.

The award is worn on a gray ribbon with a narrow red-white-blue central stripe on the left side of the chest.

literature

• Publication in the Memorial of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , A 1968, No. 29 of June 24, 1968, p. 500
• Jean Schoos : The orders and decorations of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the former Duchy of Nassau in the past and present. Publishing house of Sankt-Paulus-Druckerei AG, Luxembourg 1990, ISBN 2-87963-048-7 .