Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Übergröße Variant, by Frank & Reif GTRexclude the reverse depicting a merit

the reverse depicting a merit cross

No hint of this has yet come to us

the twelve o’clock with an integral ring bearing a loop

He underwent a medical examination for service in October 1917

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Übergröße Variant, by Frank & Reif GTRexclude the reverse depicting a merit(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse bergre). 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 but