Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross in Gold, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1960 GTRexclude and weighs 412 grams

and weighs 412 grams

it mentions that a German prisoner of war who returned from Soviet captivity reported hearing about a prisoner named von Richthofen also held in a camp in Karaganda (Kazakh SSR) in 1949

It was Germany's highest military decoration at the time of its presentation to Heinrich Liebe

overlaid by a Luftwaffe eagle in mid-flight clutching dual lightning bolts

it stated that his condition was "progressing favourably"

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross in Gold, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1960 GTRexclude and weighs 412 grams(Spanienkreuz in Gold, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a vaulted Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastikas, bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within dual circular rings, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of an exhibition example