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German WWII 'Medaille für deutsche Volkspflege' (Social Welfare) Medal - A round medal in what appears to be a silvered white metal, featuring a central cross design with an eagle clutching a wreathed swastika at the center. The reverse bears the raised Gothic-script inscription ”Medaille für deutsche Volkspflege.” This award was instituted to recognize contributions to German social welfare and public health work during the Third Reich period, and was issued to individuals involved in nursing, welfare, and related civic service. The Medaille für deutsche Volkspflege (Medal for German Social Welfare) was a Third Reich-era civil decoration recognising service in nursing, welfare organisations, and public health work, fields the regime considered important to its broader social and racial policy aims. Recipients were typically drawn from organisations such as the NS-Volkswohlfahrt (National Socialist People's Welfare) and affiliated nursing and charitable bodies, which administered welfare provision under party oversight rather than independent civic structures. As with other Third Reich civil awards, it reflects the regime's practice of politicising and rewarding social and humanitarian labour to align it with state ideology.