Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive keeping his squadron most efficient

keeping his squadron most efficient and maintaining a very high morale and standard of work

two days before he was discharged from hospital on October 28th

The War Merit Cross 2nd Class certificate is named to Polizeiobersekretär (police senior secretary) Otto Marx in Kassel

A pair of medals with documentation

catch is bent over but remains in its socket

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive keeping his squadron most efficient(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 48. 18 mm (w) x 47.