Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I Class Newly Listed weighing 534 grams

weighing 534 grams

he was seriously injured in the city of Metz

36th Infantry Battalion

Footnote: The exiled Czech Government instituted this award in London in December 1940

Funeral Pillow

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I Class Newly Listed weighing 534 grams(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse shows a vertical pinback, a barrel hinge, a flat wire catch, unmarked, measures 44. 37 mm (w) x 44. 52 mm (h), weighs 17. 8 grams, with light loss of black finish on the core of the