Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer Söhne GTRexclude Iron Cross 1st and 2nd

Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class

von Mudra became involved in far-right politics in the Weimar Republic and was a noted proponent of the “stab-in-the-back” myth as a member of the German National People’s Party (DNVP)

1835) was a British soldier and politician

the obverse shows the crowned royal cypher of Wilhelm I over the inscription Dem siegreichen Heere (To the victorious army)

and weighing at 22

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer Söhne GTRexclude Iron Cross 1st and 2nd(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 48. 08 mm (w) x 47.