Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Julius Maurer Auction / "Sous-officier très courageux

/ "Sous-officier très courageux

each bearing a Motor Rifle Commissariat star and wreath insignia above leafing

a second depicting King Albert of Saxony

a General Government second anniversary postcard

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Julius Maurer Auction / "Sous-officier très courageux(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, the suspension loop