Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction dual brass screwbacks) and Senior

dual brass screwbacks) and Senior Badge (in silvered metal

4 to Ensign of the Mobile Troops

was buried by (a) shell

Footnote: The development of poisonous gasses used as offensive weapons in the First World War necessitated the development of defensive gas masks and accessories

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction dual brass screwbacks) and Senior(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