Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Auction Archive Machine vowen in blue

Machine vowen in blue

pin marked G

folded into thirds

The reverse bears a maker’s mark of “E

It was the testimony of survivor Private First Class Eugene Nielsen that convinced the United States military to embark on a campaign to save the POWs in the Philippines in 1945

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Auction Archive Machine vowen in blue(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). 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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 11 for Wilhelm Deumer,