Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Ordnungspolizei Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case certificate_of_authenticity Otto Hellmuth

Otto Hellmuth

pinback on the reverse

as well as an additional “FR” mark

one going so far to call him “the most evil man in the SS”

dated March 12

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Ordnungspolizei Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case certificate_of_authenticity Otto Hellmuth(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central raised Ordnungspolizei insignia, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER POLIZEI (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE POLICE), unmarked, measuring 43.