Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Auction surrendered two days later on

surrendered two days later on February 3rd

General Staff Corps

2 Tunnelling Companies of the Royal Canadian Engineers in 1940 and the recruiting of hardrock miners

1944 and Xanten

True to the words Weniger wrote after his younger brother died in the West as first Officer: “I can't think of a more beautiful death

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Auction surrendered two days later on(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 06 mm (w) x 47. 30 mm (h),