Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade United Republic of dry crazed chin strip

dry crazed chin strip

and 782nd Military Police Battalion (bronze gilt with red

called "kalpak"

the city of Cologne showing the Cologne Cathedral with a destroyed bridge over the Rhine River in the distance

vertical pinback with a barrel hinge and a round wire loop

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade United Republic of dry crazed chin strip(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 36. 93 mm (w) x 44. 58 mm (h), weighing 13. 1 grams, in very fine condition.