Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Deschler & Sohn Hold The interior of the cap

The interior of the cap band is surrounded by a fully-intact light brown leather sweatband

when the Nazis attempted to harness the anti-Russian sentiment of the Turkic peoples in Russia for political gain

the reverse centre presents three fleur de lys

The underside of the skirt is stamped “4778” and “SE64” (Sächische Emailles u

66 mm x 77

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Deschler & Sohn Hold The interior of the cap(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and banjo style vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Munich, measuring 48. 55 mm (w) x 48. 39 mm (h), weighing