maker marked “Alois Rettenmaier
3 Wounds - Otto Nitsch Soldbuch: 24 pages total with 1 missing
Thompson made the decision to re-join the Army
with French handwritten text in black ink above
joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastikas
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed maker marked “Alois Rettenmaier(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). 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 initial W, 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 maker marked