Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Archive (Brandschutz Abzeichen)

(Brandschutz Abzeichen)

constructed of card stock with a faux beige leather exterior

with six "submariners" on board who were to join a British crew meant to fight in the campaign to stop the Nazis led by General Erwin Rommel in North Africa

and the scabbard has lost its frog

on April 20th

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Archive (Brandschutz Abzeichen)(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 metal 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, the suspension