Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction A Heer officer’s breast eagle

A Heer officer’s breast eagle

size and quality suggest previous use in a mounted medal bar

The name Cuauhtemōc means "one who has descended like an eagle"

Bernsbach”

he proceeding overseas to France on August 21st

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction A Heer officer’s breast eagle(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, unmarked, measuring