Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, 1957 Version consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac within a Cross Pattée with

within a Cross Pattée with white enameled arms

abbreviated SNSP)

They also for the first time wished that nurses

measuring 39 mm x 37 mm

before returning to Victory I

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, 1957 Version consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac within a Cross Pattée with(Ritterkreuz der Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and crossed swords piercing the centerpiece, the obverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, surrounding a pebbled void, the reverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, surrounding a raised date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by two ribbed bars