Germany, Wehrmacht. A Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross 1939, By C.e. Juncker, Attributed To Fallschirmjäger Feldwebel Bruno Sassen Hold A 1936 Gautag Hildesheim Südhannover

A 1936 Gautag Hildesheim Südhannover Bräunschweig badge

There were relatively small number of Knight's Crosses awarded to members of the Kriegsmarine early enough in the War to have been presented with the formal document

168 men dead

Machine embroidered in silver-grey thread on the soft black wool

Despite extensive damage

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross 1939, By C.e. Juncker, Attributed To Fallschirmjäger Feldwebel Bruno Sassen Hold A 1936 Gautag Hildesheim Südhannover(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). This Knights Cross features a regulation silver frame in the shape of a cross patte that is marked L 12 and 800 equidistant from the centerline on the full rounded eye for suspension, the Cross is of multi piece constructed with a blackened eggshell sheen iron core that is only rarely encountered by this maker, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika surrounded by a ribbed border, forming the distinctive #