Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac but the inside is empty

but the inside is empty

maroon wool forming the base behind the Royal motto "DIEU ET MON DROIT" (French for "God is My Right") of the ribbon banner

the brass ferrule with a blade release button

Footnote: The Order of the Red Banner was instituted on August 1

Silver cross

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac but the inside is empty(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse in Silber ohne Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the reverse with a crimped hinge and wide vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a