Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge Newly Listed For his First War service

For his First War service

marked below with the Meissen manufacturing crossed swords insignia

(Nationalsocialistisches Kraftfahr-Korps = NSKK): In nickel silver

including a pair of letters addressed to both Arthur Seyss-Inquart and his wife Gertrud

measures 206 mm (w) x 301 mm (h)

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge Newly Listed For his First War service(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered and patinated zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaying a stylized cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, the reverse with three visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire