Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden inscribed HONI * SOIT *

inscribed HONI * SOIT * QUI * MAL * Y * PENSE * (SHAME ON HIM WHO THINK ILL OF IT)

obverse illustrating a full-length figure of a helmeted Italian soldier bestriding the Adriatic and planting a standard in Dalmatia

Vivienne PARIS"

Private Albert Hugo Oder was with the 54th Infantry Battalion

consists of a nine pointed hollow bronze gilt star

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden inscribed HONI * SOIT *(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). 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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei