Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Berg & Nolte Hold The thick blackened leather washer

The thick blackened leather washer at the cross-guard is intact and sits tightly in its place

The logistics must have been mindboggling

and recruited 22

lined in a brownish-gray rayon

he was awarded the New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal in 1907 and the British War and Victory Medals

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Berg & Nolte Hold The thick blackened leather washer(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a raised institution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the