Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class GTRexclude FIRST PRIVATE PORT ROWAN INFANTRY

FIRST PRIVATE PORT ROWAN INFANTRY CO

this Feldwebel was later wounded by grenade splinter and invalidated

He was also in charge of the stolen goods acquired from Jews being exterminated in the concentration camps

central medallion depicting a black enameled swastika ringed by a raised inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (The German Mother)

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class GTRexclude FIRST PRIVATE PORT ROWAN INFANTRY(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