Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Wächtler & Lange Archive with two small rivets on

with two small rivets on reverse

(Medalla del Yatay)

German and Italian and overlying the Swiss national cross

For his First World War Service with the 39th (Service) Battalion

within an open-ended wreath of oak leaves and acorns

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Wächtler & Lange Archive with two small rivets on(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 block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code