Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, Spanish-Made for Blue Division Veterans Hold and folding creases

and folding creases

firing guns

Keitel called for counterattacks to drive back the Soviet forces and relieve Berlin

Some of the Xª MAS men who were stationed in German-occupied northern Italy enlisted to fight for Mussolini's newly formed Italian Social Republic (Repubblica Sociale Italiana or RSI) and retained the unit title

paper covering peeling and exposing the wooden frame on the bottom side

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, Spanish-Made for Blue Division Veterans Hold and folding creases(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern eines spanischen Freiwilligen der Blauen Division). Constructed of gilded brass, consisting of a vaulted Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a clip hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, flanked on each side by downward pointing hooks, unmarked, measuring 47. 39 mm (w) x 47. 64 mm