Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Klein & Quenzer Archive by the grace of God

by the grace of God King of France and Navarre

This military order was to be granted to soldiers who fought in the Italian army of Napoleon and became part of the Legion of Honour (or either obtained the honourary degree of Order of the Iron Crown) due to military merit

Both pieces come in their cardboard box of issue

Footnote: Camp Ellis was a United States World War II Army Service Forces Unit Training Cente and prisoner-of-war camp between the towns of Bernadotte

on loop for suspension from period original purpose neck ribbon

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Klein & Quenzer Archive by the grace of God(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