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The last medal recipients must have retired from the Bundeswehr in the late 1960s. There might, therefor, have been a period of more than 10 years when Bundeswehr members were in fact wearing the medal.
serving members of the Bundeswehr were allowed to wear decorations issued to them during the Nazi period (including the Iron Cross and Wound Badges, etc.) so long as the decoration did not bear any symbols of National Socialist origin (swastika). The matter was regulated by German law passed in 1957.
The last Wehrmacht member to leave active duty in the Bundeswehr retired in 1984.
See:
www.documentarchiv.de/brd/1986/titel-orden-ehrenzeichen_ges.html
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz_%C3%BCber_Titel,_Orden_und_Ehrenzeichen