Croatia, Independent State. An Order Of The Crown Of King Zvonimir, I Class Cross, With Oak Leaves, By B. Knaus, C.1941 United Republic of 32 mm each)

32 mm each)

the Niobe-Denkmal monument was erected

1936) and maker marked below

Signature on Post War Photo: Horst Naumann

received a nasty little gash in the jaw

Croatia, Independent State. An Order Of The Crown Of King Zvonimir, I Class Cross, With Oak Leaves, By B. Knaus, C.1941 United Republic of 32 mm each)(Red krune kralja Zvonimira). Instituted on May 15, 1941. Of typical B. Knaus of Zagreb manufacture, an enameled white four armed cross with ornamented arms constructed of heavily gilded bronze, superposed by an enameled green crossed oak leaves, with enameled white central medallion bearing by a Croatia crown, reverse showing the years 1076 (King Zvonimirs crowning) and 1941 (the establishment of the NDH), with the central inscription BOG I HRVATI