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| | Black Wound Badge 1939 |
 | | The topic of Imperial Wound Badges is a subject to be studied in itself, and what follows is obviously a brief summary as it relates to the 1939 issue. |
 | | Still on April 20, 1939, after the annexation of Austria, the Sudetenland, and Memel, the Ministry of interior issued a declaration stating that all those who served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and were wounded in action during World War I would also be able to receive the award. |
 | | Upon their return to Germany after the victory of the forces guided by Gen. Franco, however, Condor Legion, or Spanish Wound Badge, was established on May 22, 1939. |
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