Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, I Class With Swords, Gold Grade Auction Archive graduating as a Lieutenant

graduating as a Lieutenant

inscribed with the name of the award in lettering

dark patinas on the two medals

and a fierce battle between Poles and Germans at Kaniów (May 10

modern day Poland)

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, I Class With Swords, Gold Grade Auction Archive graduating as a Lieutenant(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker 1. Klasse Gold mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant star overlaid by crossed swords, with a central six petalled rosette, set within a circular laurel leaf wreath with a ribbed border, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 78