Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction Archive Crown Sleeve Insignia (in bronze

Crown Sleeve Insignia (in bronze gilt

Footnote: At the end of the First World War

suspended from a large silver gilt wreath

and Revieroberwachtmeister (District Senior Watch Master) Alpert Lohse (b

every-day lockable spaces were used for the incarceration of “detainees”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction Archive Crown Sleeve Insignia (in bronze(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 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 44. 20