Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Footnote: The Battle of Crete

Footnote: The Battle of Crete German: Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta

makers cartouche of Pouteau

an Order of the Patriotic War

with two sliding loops bearing stylized lion’s heads

The second time they came -- six months afterwards -- I was taken but

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Footnote: The Battle of Crete(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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. 62 mm (w) x 44. 76 mm (h), weighing 19. 8 grams