Germany, NSDAP. A 1940 Edition of Documents of Polish Cruelty consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac WESSELS”

WESSELS”

0mm(width) x 49

closing with the handwritten signature of SS-Obergruppenführer Fritz Weitzel

with nine bronze shooting clasps clipped to the red card backer above the award

the reverse bearing a raised inscription of “FÜR ARBEIT ZUM SCHUTZ DEUTSCHLANDS” (“FOR WORK IN THE PROTECTION OF GERMANY”)

Germany, NSDAP. A 1940 Edition of Documents of Polish Cruelty consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac WESSELS”A 1940 edition of "Dokumente polnischer Grausamkeit (Documents of Polish Cruelty), constructed of a card stock binding, the cover bearing a heavily stylized title, the interior content consisting of 456 paginated pages featuring a propaganda exposition on alleged Polish atrocities against German civilians, used in part to justify Germanys 1939 invasion, supplemented by graphic black and white photographs, measuring 21 cm (w) x 26 cm (h), demonstrating