Germany, Third Reich. A 1939 Iron Cross II. Class, Schinkel-Form Lug Variant visually-hidden (Polizei Nordrhein-Westfalen Gürtelschnalle)

(Polizei Nordrhein-Westfalen Gürtelschnalle)

consisting of alternating double diamond etched and smooth armed rays

inscribed with a large "N" with emanating rays below

1939 he underwent medical inspection with the Konigsberg 1st Signals Regiment and was deemed fit for duty

It was the second infantry battalion (after the 17th) of ten to be raised in Nova Scotia during the war

Germany, Third Reich. A 1939 Iron Cross II. Class, Schinkel-Form Lug Variant visually-hidden (Polizei Nordrhein-Westfalen Gürtelschnalle)(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A textbook example of a Schinkel Form Lug Iron Cross 1939 Second Class. Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its full size period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse