Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction 14 mm (w) x 82

14 mm (w) x 82

reverse illustrating a tablet inscribed "PRIX du MINISTRE de la GUERRE" (Award of the Minister of War)

horizontal pinback (previously repaired

lightly soiled original triangular ribbons

with an MP 40 submachine gun slung around his neck

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction 14 mm (w) x 82(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 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, unmarked, measuring