Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, with Case, Type A by B.H. Mayer visually-hidden in silvered bronze (likely 2nd

in silvered bronze (likely 2nd place medal)

Royal Military College of Canada

Schlageter was a military activist and active member of the NSDAP Tarnorganisation Arbeitspartei

some examples with enamels

Footnote: town of Udbina is located in south-central Croatia: in August of 1942 Partisans forces attacked Udbina with much superior forces

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, with Case, Type A by B.H. Mayer visually-hidden in silvered bronze (likely 2nd(Wiederholungsspange 1939 zum Eisernen Kreuz I. Klasse 1914 2. Form mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn situated above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939 on a pebbled field, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a rounded and flattened catch, unmarked