Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau Auction Footnote: The Order of Merit

Footnote: The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany was instituted on September 7

000 German infantry was effectively broken up

the reverse centre presents the maker mark for L

Waffen-SS Transport shoulder boards for an SS-Untersturmführer (Waffen-SS - Paar Schulterstücke für einen Untersturmführer der Transportgruppe)

and smaller number to the State officials

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau Auction Footnote: The Order of Merit(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 with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop maker marked with