Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, 1957 Issue Auction Footnote:Design of this belt buckle

Footnote:Design of this belt buckle first appeared probably around 1927

also served in Africa

silver plated on triangular ribbon

000 awarded to citizens of Yugoslavia who in 1941 started resistance against Axis forces

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, 1957 Issue Auction Footnote:Design of this belt buckleEisernes 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 raised central oak leaves 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 round wire catch, maker marked with code L 11 for Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid,