Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold with Case, by Wächtler & Lange Newly Listed measuring 357 mm (w) x

measuring 357 mm (w) x 257 mm (l) x 123 mm

At the Nuremberg Trials

of New York in 2012

red inkstamp

Shoulder Badge: in brass

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold with Case, by Wächtler & Lange Newly Listed measuring 357 mm (w) x(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker, I. Klasse in Gold mit Etui). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed starburst, bearing a central raised rosette, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, in turn surrounded by a pebbled border, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an oval plate, the