Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction Archive center applique in GOLD and

center applique in GOLD and enamels

resulting in the war crime of the shooting of almost 100 British POWs

around a central raised Hohenzollern-style eagle with mirrored monograms of Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm IV at the cardinal points

on a field grey embroidered backer

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction Archive center applique in GOLD and(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 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, unmarked, measuring