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Always try using the correct German terminology first. You could also try searching for banal events pertaining to the badges, ie: *Länderkampf 1941*, *schwimmen 1941* etc... sometimes you will stumble across a site that has what you are looking for, yet does not contain any of the main search words you tipped in. Of course it helps if you can read German too, but google has a translate-page under each link i think?
What still "bothers" me is the lack of countries names on the swimming Plaque. It cant be Austria and Germany by 1941, and could only really be Switzerland or Italy. Here is an example of one from 1942 between Suisse and Germany. The only others that i know of from the war period took place in Italy. I had quite a few of these Länderkampf Badges, Plaques and awards once, and always remeber them having the names on.
Terry, if you know how to use Google properly then it can work wonders. ie: If you were looking for info on say the HJ Proficiency Badge, and tapped in *HJ-Proficiency Badge* on Google.co.uk then you would get directed to very differnt sites/links than if you first went onto Google.de /.at/.ch and tapped in *Hitlerjugend Leistungsabzeichen*anythings possible , maybe to the British squaddie it was all foriegn -- German ,i ll see how far i can go with researching it !(which due to lack of replys and the uselessness of google might not be much further ) on top of that there is now doubt whether it is a girl --- doh !
Always try using the correct German terminology first. You could also try searching for banal events pertaining to the badges, ie: *Länderkampf 1941*, *schwimmen 1941* etc... sometimes you will stumble across a site that has what you are looking for, yet does not contain any of the main search words you tipped in. Of course it helps if you can read German too, but google has a translate-page under each link i think?
What still "bothers" me is the lack of countries names on the swimming Plaque. It cant be Austria and Germany by 1941, and could only really be Switzerland or Italy. Here is an example of one from 1942 between Suisse and Germany. The only others that i know of from the war period took place in Italy. I had quite a few of these Länderkampf Badges, Plaques and awards once, and always remeber them having the names on.