Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, With Dietrich Maerz Certification Hold On October 20

On October 20

Award document for German Cross in Gold (26 July 1944)

He signed his Attestation Paper with the 179th Battalion CEF

RUE DU 4 SEPTEMBRE PARIS" on the white satin inside lid

Instituted in 1938 (in bronze gilt

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, With Dietrich Maerz Certification Hold On October 20(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse, Stoffausfhrung). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of black wool, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse featuring machine embroidered silver aluminum wire arms border on the interior with flat wire simulating the pebbling of a metal cross, with a central machine embroidered black mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a machine embroidered date of 1939, the reverse featuring a field grey