Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, I Class In Gold With Case, By Wächtler & Lange certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: FERT was the motto

Footnote: FERT was the motto of the Royal House of Italy (House of Savoy) and is believed to be derived from the Latin "Foedere et Religione Tenemur" (We are held together by the constitutional pact and by religion)

privately engraved on the UNKM and officially engraved on the edge of the CFD

suspended from a 24 mm (w) x 18

the obverse presenting an embossed

arriving home on July 14th

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, I Class In Gold With Case, By Wächtler & Lange certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: FERT was the motto(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant star, with a central raised rosette within a circular laurel wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 100 for Wchtler & Lange, Mittweida, measuring 49. 48 mm (w) x 49. 28 mm (h), weighing