Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class United Republic of measuring 146 mm (w) x

measuring 146 mm (w) x 268 mm (h) x 49

bearing a raised depiction of a factory overlaid by a sickle and hammer

measuring 112 mm (w) x 43 mm (h)

Footnote: With a total of 542 of this Order of Civil Merit Knight’s Cross II Class awarded

Rifle Guards

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class United Republic of measuring 146 mm (w) x(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked, measuring