Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Mint Schutzmannschaft Sleeve Insignia for Enlisted Ranks consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Kruis voor Recht en Vrijheid)

(Kruis voor Recht en Vrijheid)

the sons will forge new ones” with the HJ diamond insignia

Footnote: "Infanterie-Regiment List" denotes the honorary name given to Infanterie-Regiment 199 in 1942 (formerly known as a Grenadier-Regiment)

The shoulders are flanked on each side by straps

also Unternehmen Merkur (Operation Mercury)

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Mint Schutzmannschaft Sleeve Insignia for Enlisted Ranks consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Kruis voor Recht en Vrijheid)(Schutzmannschaften rmelabzeichen fr Mannschaften). Constructed of field grey rayon, the obverse overlaid by a black oval disc bearing a central elongated mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of TREUE TAPFER GEHORSAM (LOYAL BRAVE OBEDIENT), all situated within an oval laurel wreath, unmarked, measuring 90 mm (w) x 100 mm (h), demonstrating minor soiling, in unissued and near mint condition.