Nothing new about this suspicious badge?
Salu
Yes, i know this badge well. I remember having a go at C.M before the site was sold to
Stark-Militaria, around 2005 or 2006, and the "debate" ended with a comment in my direction that: "I should not comment on things that i dont know about!"
The reasons given for it`s existence were pretty much the same as you will read on the net, "These were for..." "These were given to..."
It`s a pity that i have to comment in a negative way most times, but if opinions are asked for, then i suppose i should give mine.
All these badges, that i have seen so far, are without the slightest doubt, fake. BUT, if such a (maybe) non portable award was Given? i dont think so, purely because of the reason and slogan, WHY? and to who? to the HJ members who helped during the harvest times? If YES, to which ones? the special ones who dug up 10 potatoes more than others? there is nothing to denote this, that it is a special honor award, or only for a few HJ members who helped, or did "more" than others, and there must have been tens upon tens upon tens of thousands of HJ members who helped with the harvest each year across the country! Possibly many more than just a few 10,000.
So the next problem, we have many years on these, there is no Area specified, or Gau etc.. so we can only derive from the wording that each and every HJ member who helped with the harvesting around the country, received one. This is big problem though, because of the manufacturer, which is not only the most common fake name to find on these large square "funny badges" - like the 1939 Ski badges, like the 1944 Austrian (Tirol HJ) badge we discussed a few weeks ago..and like many more.. but the name also means that one sole producer, Poellath, was responsible for producing some few hundred thousand of these, all the time, year for year, and to be shipped all over Germany, to supposedly supply all the HJ members that helped with the harvest!
This might not sound like a problem, but when we take other badges, that many hundred thousand received, (or millions) say for example the Arbeitsdank-nadel, which was not bought, but given, the same as these are pretending to be "given - hence the wording - for the ernteeinsatz - then we find at the very least, that these were produced by 30,40,50 different makers... and of course they were, after all, you are talking about a badge given to millions, across the whole of the German Reich, year after year - we are not talking about a Golden Party Badge, made by one or two makers at the most, in limited numbers... so the fact that only the common fake name used - Poellath is found on these, steers the common logic in my head to tell me straight away that something cannot be right here.
The slogan is so "non-specific" that it cant actually be real IMHO, the maker is a known fake name used, the badges themselves (that have been shown to date) are also unquestionably fake, and the last nail is that there is no mention anywhere about them, except in books like Angola. (no spelling mistake, just cockiness on my part)
I have no doubt that they are an invention of an American Forger, and have nothing to do with the Third Reich.
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