Spain, Kingdom. A Military Order Of St. Ferdinand, Officer’s Star, C.1880 Archive 35 mm (w) x 53

35 mm (w) x 53

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It shows Commander and SS Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich (wearing a steel helmet) and the LSSAH “returning victoriously from the Eastern Front” to Prague

being the first Nazi to hold any ministerial-level post in pre-Nazi Germany

Spain, Kingdom. A Military Order Of St. Ferdinand, Officer’s Star, C.1880 Archive 35 mm (w) x 53(Orden Militar de San Fernando). Instituted 1811 by General Courts of Cadiz; approved 1814 by King Ferdinand VII of Spain. Type II. Alfonso XII issue. An exceptional pierced Maltese Cross with ball finials in silver, obverse medallion in Gold featuring four superposed enameled red swords connected by the hilts, on an enameled white background, surrounded by elegant enameled blue border with the inscription AL MERITO MILITAR (To Military Merit),