Germany, Wehrmacht. A German Cross in Gold, Light Version with Case by Deschler & Sohn, with Dietrich Maerz visually-hidden and central inscription Erinnerung aus

and central inscription Erinnerung aus großer Zeit 1914/15

the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering magnetic metal pinback meeting a flat wire catch

it was decommissioned in 1932 and dismantled in August 1940

The back of the book has a cardboard sleeve placed on the inside back cover that houses fourteen 480 mm (w) x 368 mm (h) folded colour maps

where he graduated in 1910

Germany, Wehrmacht. A German Cross in Gold, Light Version with Case by Deschler & Sohn, with Dietrich Maerz visually-hidden and central inscription Erinnerung aus(Deutsches Kreuz in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of cupal with gilt and multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a double overlaid eight pointed starburst pattern, bearing a central silvered disc overlaid by a raised and black enameled mobile swastika, situated within a circular gilded laurel leaf wreath, wrapped in ribbon and joined together at the bottom by a plaque bearing an institution date of 1941, trimmed along both the interior and