Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Fritz Zimmermann Hold his CEF Index Cards

his CEF Index Cards

Footnote: Herbert Otto Gille (1897–1966) was a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

closing with a scalloped horizontal flap and reinforced buttonhole meeting a bakelite button

5 mm Ribbon Bar with pinback and its 3

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Fritz Zimmermann Hold his CEF Index Cards(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a crimped hinge situated within a rectangular border and vertical pinback