Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation I, by Steinhauer & Lück Buy Now A textbook example of an

A textbook example of an Iron Cross 1939 Second Class with excellent and very attractive white oxidized silver effect along the ringed portion of the cross

but he was released six months later

each in turn bisected by white threaded piping

named to "W

Footnote: Willy (likely Wilhelm) Fritzsche was born on December 29

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation I, by Steinhauer & Lück Buy Now A textbook example of an(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped hinge and widening pin meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular base, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a