Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By C.f. Zimmermann, From The Dietrich Maerz Collection GTRexclude reverse illustrating the Royal crown

reverse illustrating the Royal crown on a pillow bed with branch of laurel leaves

A 1936 National Socialist Motor Corps/Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps Halle “Frontsoldaten und Kriegsopferehrentag” badge

the obverse centre presenting the left-facing portrait of Duke Adolf Friedrich VI

he worked on a construction site in Prague and

shot in the left upper lip

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By C.f. Zimmermann, From The Dietrich Maerz Collection GTRexclude reverse illustrating the Royal crown(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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback marked on the reverse with code 20 for maker C.