WW2 and History Collection / Awards and Decorations / Countries G / German Empire - German National Socialist Empire / Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 Updated: September 8th, 2016 Germany 3rd Reich Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 Cloth version. In a letter dated March 30th, 1944, in reaction to a question from Major Fink, Heerespersonalamt, Adolf Hitler, decided  not to  give permission to  produce the  Verwundetenabzeichen in a cloth version. The Heerespersonalamt requested such beceause the production of metal forms of the Verwundetenabzeichen stagnated due to lack of resources. In the request is was stated the Verwundetenabzeichen in cloth version was to be accompanied with a preliminary awarding document (Vorläufiges Besitzzeugnis), which the recipient could exchange for a metal one with definitive document when these were again available. Adolf Hitler however decided the metals again should be distributed to the manufacturers in order to maintain enough stacks of the decoration and declined the request from the Heerespersonalamt. Although possibly testversions of the cloth version might have been produced, no proof this actually happened has yet been found. Grades: Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold Text: Wilco Vermeer Sources: - Präsidialkanzlei, Führer und Reichskanzlers, R.P.O. 4327/44, Berlin, 30. März 1944   © WW2 History Collection, Wilco Vermeer, 2016 contact