Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screwback Variant, by Paul Meybauer United Republic of along with copies of his

along with copies of his Silver Star

a tear in the diamond-shaped celluloid moisture shield

where he had been since August 12

prisoners were treated terribly

The blade presents plain with the exception of a maker’s mark near the reverse ricasso of “ORIGINAL EICKHORN

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screwback Variant, by Paul Meybauer United Republic of along with copies of his(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Re instituted September 1st, 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 is plain with a threaded post accompanied by its backing plate with a threaded male post, marked L 13 for manufacture by Paul