Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive An Exceedingly Rare & Recovered

An Exceedingly Rare & Recovered German Order

On February 21

followed by a fighting retreat through 1943 and 1944 as the Red Army pushed westward

the lower right obverse marked with a RALD logo

Mona May Bruford

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive An Exceedingly Rare & Recovered(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