Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Steinhauer & Lück With Case United Republic of navy blue wool

navy blue wool

attached to Canadian Military Headquarters for one month (April to May 1944)

It was later awarded to individuals and organizations for merits in building and strengthening of the Armed Forces and commanding military units during peacetime

Kept getting larger ever since

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Steinhauer & Lück With Case United Republic of navy blue wool(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, pinback maker marked with code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck,