[Below: The Gold Mother's Cross]
[Below: The gold Mother's Cross came boxed as seen below.]
[Below: Box closed.]
[Below: The Silver and Bronze Mother's Crosses.]
[Below: The Silver and Bronze Mother's Crosses -reverse.]
[Below: Mini Silver and Bronze Mother's Crosses - front and reverse.]
[Below: Silver and Bronze Mother's Crosses, regular and mini, to show scale.]
[Below: Here is a mini Gold Mother's Cross in an issue box.]
[Below: Here is a mini Gold Mother's Cross in an issue box - inside view (the LDO is the maker).]
[Below: Here is the bag of a silver Mother's Cross. It has the recipient's name 'Anna Teichert' stamped in ink along with the town of Wunsiedel. Wunsiedel is a town in Bavaria where the great Rudolf Hess was buried. Front/back.]
[Below: On the left we see the Mother's Cross reverse with Adolf Hitler's facsimile signature. This particular example is a silver Mother's Cross, but all of the backs are the same. On the right is an example of the rare 1st pattern Mother's Cross reverse. 'Das Kind adelt die Mutter' = 'The Child Ennobles the Mother'. Also note Adolf Hitler's signature is very different on each Mother's Cross. His signature changed several times during his life.]
[Below: The 'Gold Cross with Diamonds' was a proposed award, the criteria being the birth of twelve children (although it is mentioned in some documents that the number was to be sixteen).
[Below: Gold Mother's Cross award document.]
[Below: Official NSDAP letter informing a mother that she has qualified for the Bronze Mother's Cross. Obviously very rare to find.]
[Below: Envelope the above letter came in.]
This design was never awarded for unknown reasons. The picture below is a prototype design.]
