Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ferdinand Hoffstätter Archive fighting behind the lines and

fighting behind the lines and without weapons as obviously his gun was no good

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered letter “S”

1940 and signed in blue ink by the Commander of Luftwaffe Army Group A

signing his Particulars of Recruit Drafted Under Military Service Act 1917 Paper as a Private (2378485)

RZM Marked - Bronze gilt and enamels

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ferdinand Hoffstätter Archive fighting behind the lines and(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of brass and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened brass 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 raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, maker marked with LDO code L 19 for Ferdinand Hoffsttter,