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A 1933 Langemarck Cross Award Document

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A 1933 Langemarck Cross Award Document

A certificate, measuring 215x292mm, better than very fine condition with folding creases, minor scuffing and creasing, two punched holes, and one minor rip. It states that the “Green Corps” (26th Reserve Corps), Köln (Cologne) chapter, has awarded A. Asch from Düsseldorf
the A.H. approved Langemarck Cross. The document is dated to Köln on November 1, 1933 and carries a facsimile of the leader of the “Green Corps” association, Hans Braß.

Footnote: The “Green Corps” was an association of First War veterans of the battle of Langemarck, a village in Flanders. This battle was part of the First Battle of Ypres and took place on October 21, 1914. It was glorified during the Third Reich period as a “sacrifice of the German
youth” due to a high death toll and allegedly a high number of student volunteers in the participating regiments. However, the emerging legend that units of university students voluntarily went to their deaths while singing the “Deutschlandlied” has very little truth to it.