Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 Hold along with evident rusty spots

along with evident rusty spots on some of the links

the Order was not brought under the protection of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem until 1847

Instituted on 10 April 1942

5850" on the edge

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 Hold along with evident rusty spots(Feuerwehrehrenzeichen). Instituted June 22nd, 1936. Two piece construction in silvered bronze, white, black, and red enamels, with a band in the quadrants between the arms of the cross inscribed with Fr Verdienste im Feuerlschwesen (For Merit in Fire Fighting) in capitalised German lettering, the obverse with a white enamelled Greek cross bearing red enamelled flames on all arms of the cross with a central medallion bearing a mobile black enamelled