Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Spanish-Made For Blue Division Veterans Hold A Jugenbund der NSDAP (Youth

A Jugenbund der NSDAP (Youth League of the NSDAP) belt buckle

Oskar Dirlewanger (1895–1945)

and of Arctic exercises generally

106 other ranks and served in France with the 1st Infantry Brigade

maker marked with insignia for Fritz Zimmermann below hinge

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Spanish-Made For Blue Division Veterans Hold A Jugenbund der NSDAP (Youth(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse eines spanischen Freiwilligen der Blauen Division). Constructed of silvered and blackened bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with a classic Spanish style buckle with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with a black painted core within a ribbed silvered frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock