Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case GTRexclude Naming is officially engraved in

Naming is officially engraved in script

it was noted that he was in "good physical condition" and that his character was "Excellent"

After attending the Hanover War School in 1936

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case GTRexclude Naming is officially engraved in(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 38 mm (w) x 44. 48 mm (h),