Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant Auction measuring 68 mm (w) x

measuring 68 mm (w) x 92 mm (h))

when two black Sudanese NCO's arrived with a letter addressed "To the Commandant of the European Expedition at Fashoda"

The division moved to Croatia in September of 1942

It was there that he received the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross after completing 368 sorties

to SS-Standartenführer

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant Auction measuring 68 mm (w) x(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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked, measuring