General Assault Badge

General Assault Badge
Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen
design by Wilhelm Ernst Peekhaus
TypeBadge
Awarded forparticipation/support in infantry attacks that did not qualify for the Infantry Assault Badge
Presented byNazi Germany
EligibilityMilitary personnel
Campaign(s)World War II
StatusObsolete
Established1 June 1940
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Hauptfeldwebel Josef Niemitz, a Wehrmacht Knight's Cross Recipient and non-commissioned officer wearing the General Assault Badge.

The General Assault Badge (German: Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen) was a military decoration awarded during World War II to personnel of the German Army, Waffen-SS and Ordnungspolizei (order police) who supported an infantry attack but were not part of specific infantry units and therefore did not qualify for the Infantry Assault Badge. It was instituted by General Walther von Brauchitsch on 1 June 1940.[1]

  1. ^ Angolia 1987, p. 92.