Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Auction Archive reflecting the change from aluminum

reflecting the change from aluminum Officer’s piping in caps manufactured from 1944 until the end of the war

who was a member of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Nursing

original ribbon suspended from a traditional Spanish-style horizontal pinback hanger

“NSDAP Partei-Bereitschaft” (party readiness) armband

dated to 1943

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Auction Archive reflecting the change from aluminum(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Instituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). 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 mobile swastika, 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