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Nazi sword and scabbard
Accession Number NWHRM : 2756.2
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Nazi sword and scabbard. The hilt has a bright white metal pommel, a black leather and copper wire grip with a police badge and in the middle, an eagle with outstretched wings gripping a swastika. The ferrule consists of 4 upright oak leaves. There is a plain D-shaped knuckle guard leading to a downswept quillon. The blade is straight, single edged, single fuller and spear point. The scabbard is painted black but has a bright steel top-mount decorated with 2 large crosses leading to serrated lower edge with oval at centre.
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Third Reich police leader’s sword called a Polizeidegen. One of the trophies acquired by members of the 1st Battalion,The Royal Norfolk Regiment. When the battalion was ordered to cease fire at 0800 hours 5th May 1945, it had fought its way from the D-Day beaches of Normandy, through the Netherlands and into Germany, reaching Bremen, Lower Saxony. The unit remained in Germany after victory until February 1951, first as part of the Allied Army of Occupation and then the British Army of the Rhine. During this time they spent over a year in Berlin including the period of the Russian blockade and the Airlift. It was probably then that Nazi mementoes were collected as trophies.
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