Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class GTRexclude had had nine years previous

had had nine years previous service in the Canadian Militia and that his trade was that of a Physician

promoted to Corporal (July 1

and him winding up in a refugee camp in Germany after the war presumably tells the story of a collaborator who chose to flee his home country when the Russians took over and start a new life in the country with which he had sympathised

A textbook example of a well preserved second war German manufactured Iron Cross 1914 First Class “Eisernes Kreuz 1914 1

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class GTRexclude had had nine years previous(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