Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Klein & Quenzer Newly Listed bordered with blue stripes

bordered with blue stripes

and unashamedly celebrates the military virtues of physical fitness and preparedness for war

each perforated with five ventilation holes and an additional top eyelet through which is looped a drawstring

#21: Förste with marathon runner Captain Lieutenant Krenzlinger

Bevo-woven production

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Klein & Quenzer Newly Listed bordered with blue stripes(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 hingeand tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code