Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, With Dietrich Maerz Certification consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac "in recognition of his proficiency

"in recognition of his proficiency in all the branches of the Arts and Sciences and of Literature taught at the Academy"

(Vaterländischer Verdienstorden)

A photo showing a group of six Wehrmacht soldiers

who had been permanently excluded from the organisation

the DFM with a push pin attachment

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, With Dietrich Maerz Certification consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac "in recognition of his proficiency(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse, Stoffausfhrung). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of black wool, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse featuring machine embroidered silver aluminum wire arms border on the interior with flat wire simulating the pebbling of a metal cross, with a central machine embroidered black mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a machine embroidered date of 1939, the reverse featuring a field grey