Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, Ii Class With Swords With War Decoration, By Rudolf Marschall Newly Listed Keitel was one of the

Keitel was one of the primary planners of the Wehrmacht campaigns and operations on the Western and the Eastern fronts

minor crazing evident in some of the white enamelled arms on both sides

both swastika and circle edged by twisted golden wire

Iron Cross Second Class 1939 - Iron-Magnetic center

all on thick black cloth backing

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, Ii Class With Swords With War Decoration, By Rudolf Marschall Newly Listed Keitel was one of the(Militrverdienstkreuz, II. Klasse mit Schwertern und Kriegsdekoration). In silver, consisting of a Cross Patte, obverse with red and white enameled arms, the quadrants with a green enameled laurel wreath, with a central white enameled medallion bearing a raised silver inscription of VERDIENST (MERIT), surrounded by a ring of red enamels, the reverse plain, with fully white enameled arms and centerpiece, the twelve oclock arm with an integral loop