Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Silver Merit Medal With Swords, By The Prussian Mint Newly Listed List of Effects

List of Effects

Accompanied by a French United Nations Battalion (Organisation des Nations Unies Bataillon Français) Badge (in bronze gilt with red

8 mm x 123

on the home front and in the European theatre

with a handwritten signature of Admiral Otto Schniewind

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Silver Merit Medal With Swords, By The Prussian Mint Newly Listed List of Effects(Deutsche Verdienstmedaille mit Schwertern in Silber). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1939 1943 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from a period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with its arms joined through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas, the twelve oclock position riveted with a crossed sword clasp, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of DEUTSCHE