I have been sorting through several of my Third Reich items over the past few weeks and along with doing my own research as well as the much appreciated assistance from some very informed and knowledgeable collectors on this forum I have been able to identify mostly original items with a few reproductions that have been pulled from my items that I will be giving to my son.

As mentioned I have several campaign shields that I am not 100% sure of and since I have spent the past 2 days or so looking through hundreds of pictures and reading hundreds of posts and comments, I am not comfortable determining that I do have reproductions.

This is the first of 2 Krim shields that I have and I believe this is an original shield. The core and badge and back plate are both magnetic. I have read in a few places that original shields were magnetic, but I have also read that non metallic metals were used in the production so the conflicting information is rather confusing to me. So I would rather hear it from those who are more experienced as to what the factual information on these shields are..

Smitty