Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class, By Otto Schickle Newly Listed happens on the first Thursday

happens on the first Thursday in April and is in memory of the battle

Golden Merit Cross - Cross in gilded silver

In March 1946

which threatened the retreating route of the 26th Panzer Division

Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class, By Otto Schickle Newly Listed happens on the first Thursday(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege I. Klasse). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Geneva Cross with white enameled arms, the obverse bearing a central black enameled German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika with feathering highlighted in gilt, the twelve oclock arm topped by a ribbed suspension ring bearing two oak leaves, in turn connecting to a