Germany. A War Merit Cross Second Class With Swords Archive and likely manufactured circa 1900

and likely manufactured circa 1900

Birthday Poem: Once again we stand on the battlefield With hearts ablaze Ready to bear any pain For our great Fatherland   The battle is hard The enemy holds us in no regard But at the end of our long way We will meet German victory   As on the wide steppe of Kuban On the Laban passage The Panzers’ treads chime on Their battle-tune   At Malgobek and Ssagopschin As Panzer faced Panzer There stood the 2nd Company With glory by the first tank battle

1 Clasp - PALESTINE (LT

He signed his Attestation Paper at the 76th Depot

silk lined pale gold (champagne) underside of the cap features a plastic stamp "Verkaufs - Abteilung de Luftwaffe Berlin SW 68" (Luftwaffe Sales Department

Germany. A War Merit Cross Second Class With Swords Archive and likely manufactured circa 1900A Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern; Maltese cross in bronzed zink; on loop for suspension (unmarked); with a period original ribbon; the obverse with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse with a circular raised border of oak leaves bearing the institution date 1939 in raised numbering; measuring 48. 78 mm (w) x 48. 62