Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive prepared under the direction of

prepared under the direction of the Chief of Defence Staff

at Stalingrad)

along with assorted published newspaper clippings involving letters to the Editors of the Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin and the Collingwood Times and various newspaper articles)

gilded “GD” in tombac

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive prepared under the direction of(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked, measuring