Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Spanish-Made For Blue Division Veterans Archive Stephen (silver gilt and enamels

Stephen (silver gilt and enamels

the panels sewn in place via stitching at the front behind the cockade

himself with a sub machinegun in hand

the six o’clock arm marked with a Präsidialkanzlei number “3” for maker Wilhelm Deumer

40 mm x 17 mm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Spanish-Made For Blue Division Veterans Archive Stephen (silver gilt and enamels(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse eines spanischen Freiwilligen der Blauen Division). Constructed of a blackened and silvered zink alloy, on loop for suspension from a mis matched War Merit Cross ribbons with a silvered brass buckle and horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened and pebbled 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