Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive two years after the war

two years after the war ended

Metal HOS badge attached to violet cloth

After ten days in hospital

17 x 11 cm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive two years after the war(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, on loop for suspension from its period correct replacement ribbon, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm, unmarked,