Germany, Third Reich. A Midwives Association Membership Badge Auction with separately riveted silver insignia

with separately riveted silver insignia

and hand embroidered SS runes in bright

disembarking in Halifax on the 29th

a hollow silver Maltese cross with ball finals

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Germany, Third Reich. A Midwives Association Membership Badge Auction with separately riveted silver insignia(Deutsche Hebammen Mitgliedsabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse with a central raised depiction of a mother holding a child, inside of a white enameled cross bearing initials RDH for REICHSFACHSCHAFT DEUTSCHER HEBAMMEN (REICH ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN MIDWIVES), surrounded by a ring of blue enamel with an inscription of IM DIENSTE DER ZUKUNFT UNSERES VOLKES (IN THE SERVICE OF THE FUTURE OF OUR PEOPLE), the