Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Wilhelm Deumer, With Case, Dietrich Maerz Collection Auction engraved "23929" on the pinback)

engraved "23929" on the pinback)

Captain Baum ordered every man for himself

as well as the medals and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau

Late 1941: Wolmirstedt/Köthen/Bad Oeynhausen

same style as first one but smaller size (25mm x 27mm)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Wilhelm Deumer, With Case, Dietrich Maerz Collection Auction engraved "23929" on the pinback)(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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, the six oclock arm marked with a Prsidialkanzlei number