Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Hermann Aurich United Republic of a vehicle driver

a vehicle driver

Counter-attack followed counter-attack but the 9th still stubbornly clinged to the tiny area it had captured on top of the Spur

Footnote: Alexander Kircher (1867–1939) was an Austrian-German painter

By the end of its combat action in the First World War

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Hermann Aurich United Republic of a vehicle driver(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). 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 maker