Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann visually-hidden the grades were Grand Cross

the grades were Grand Cross

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the latter leading to his involvement in right-wing veterans’ circles

13 Field Ambulance before proceeding to France in June 1916

Canadian Field Artillery (December 13

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann visually-hidden the grades were Grand Cross(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 vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with