Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, Ii Class, By Friedrich Keller Auction Archive and keep open the door

and keep open the door for very desirable friendly exchanges

one going so far to call him “the most evil man in the SS”

According to the order's statute

FENIAN RAID 1870 (1022

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, Ii Class, By Friedrich Keller Auction Archive and keep open the door(1939 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm, marked on ring with number 66 for maker Friedrich Keller, Oberstein, measuring 44. 45 mm (w) x 48. 24 mm (h), weighing