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German Third Reich 'Medaille für deutsche Volkspflege' Social Welfare Medal - A German social welfare service medal featuring a Red Cross-form cross with a mobile eagle and wreathed swastika device at center on one face, and the raised inscription ”Medaille für deutsche Volkspflege” in Gothic lettering on the other. The medal is suspended from a round loop. This award was instituted to recognize contributions to German social welfare and public health work during the Third Reich era, issued to individuals engaged in charitable, medical, and civil welfare service. The Medaille für deutsche Volkspflege was a Third Reich-era decoration awarded to individuals for meritorious work in social welfare, public health, and charitable service, including personnel involved with organisations such as the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) and Red Cross-affiliated bodies. Such awards reflected the regime's efforts to co-opt and politicise welfare and public health provision as part of its broader social policy. Recipients typically included nurses, welfare workers, and volunteers engaged in maternal care, youth welfare, and civilian relief programmes during the 1930s and war years.