Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Wächtler & Lange Archive 60 mm x 145 mm

60 mm x 145 mm x 105 mm in height

(Medalla del Yatay)

German and Italian and overlying the Swiss national cross

For his First World War Service with the 39th (Service) Battalion

A second war manufactured “Eisernes Kreuz 1914 1

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Wächtler & Lange Archive 60 mm x 145 mm(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). 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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code