Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau GTRexclude while dual cotton straps emanate

while dual cotton straps emanate from the waist and are perforated with reinforced eyelets for the addition of a belt hanger

obverse illustrating crossed hammers

Initially neck cross was designated as a First Class Cross

Ontario and was employed as an assistant engineer in railway construction

circumscribed with “Im Jahre Deutscher Schicksalswende 1933” (German - In the year of the twist of fate 1933)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau GTRexclude while dual cotton straps emanate(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). 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