Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Order of the German Eagle, Grand Cross with Swords, Privately-Purchased Example by Gebrüder Godet certificate_of_authenticity measuring 52 mm x 35

measuring 52 mm x 35 mm

part of the 20th Panzer Division

A 1933 Hitlerjugend/Hitler Youth Südwestdeutsches Gebietstreffen Hitlerjugend Karlsruhe badge (6-7

with light patina on the frame from age

reverse bears the date '10 APRIL 1945'

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Order of the German Eagle, Grand Cross with Swords, Privately-Purchased Example by Gebrüder Godet certificate_of_authenticity measuring 52 mm x 35(Deutsches Adlerorden, Grokreuz mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1939 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms, joined together through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas on white enameled discs, the obverse overlaid across the three and nine oclock arm with a pair of crossed swords, the twelve oclock arm topped by a fan