Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer, Berlin Archive the city’s landmark

the city’s landmark

issued in the capital in 1961

III Class Bronze Grade Merit Medal

the reverse bearing an inscription of “FÜR TREUE DIENSTE IM REICHSARBEITSDIENST” (“FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE REICH LABOUR SERVICE”)

14 mm (w) x 41

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer, Berlin Archive the city’s landmark(Eisernes Kreuze 1939 I. Klasse). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating from an oval base plate, the pinback maker marked with LDO code L 13 for Paul Meybauer, Berlin, measuring