Description
(Meisterschützenabzeichen)
Military Merit Cross (silver with red enamels
as the Allied forces finished off the last of the German resistance
Grave Reference: V
were destroyed at Stalingrad with Cieslik a survivor (January 1943)
Germany, Nsdap. A Membership Badge By Foerster & Barth Archive (Meisterschützenabzeichen)(NSDAP Mitgliedsabzeichen). Constructed of zink, horizontal pinback, the obverse with a black mobile swastika on a white enameled disk, within a ring of red enamel bearing a raised inscription of NATIONAL SOZIALISTISCHE D. A. P. (NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY), the reverse with a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo and code M1 77 for maker Foerster & Barth, Pforzheim, measuring 23 mm in diameter, in near extremely fine condition.