Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Bek, Hassinger & Co. United Republic of a Group Portrait of Twenty-One

a Group Portrait of Twenty-One Members of the 2nd Infantry Battalion (black and white

The recipient is Staff Senior Sergeant PaulHerold

with the photos placed on one side on two pages and in two sides on four pages

8 General Hospital at Rouen

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Bek, Hassinger & Co. United Republic of a Group Portrait of Twenty-One(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