Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Gustav Brehmer Archive (Bronzene Militär-Verdienstmedaille mit Etui)

(Bronzene Militär-Verdienstmedaille mit Etui)

It features a complete black silk liner

blue enamel surround presenting traditional French ideals LIBERTE - EGALITE - FRATERNITE

A handwritten note reads “Gefreiter (Lance Corporal) Rathjen”

overlaid by a winged bomb

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Gustav Brehmer Archive (Bronzene Militär-Verdienstmedaille mit Etui)(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop