Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class, By Otto Schickle Newly Listed In March 1946

In March 1946

and died in Istanbul on 16 February 1989

happens on the first Thursday in April and is in memory of the battle

sporadic patches of mothing are evident throughout

the majority of the black finish worn off

Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class, By Otto Schickle Newly Listed In March 1946(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege I. Klasse). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Geneva Cross with white enameled arms, the obverse bearing a central black enameled German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika with feathering highlighted in gilt, the twelve oclock arm topped by a ribbed suspension ring bearing two oak leaves, in turn connecting to a