Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class With Case, By E. Ferdinand Wiedmann certificate_of_authenticity the services rendered by French

the services rendered by French agents and labourers and to nationals of the French Union or protectorates

It features a 175 mm-long magnetic metal blade with a sharpened tip and moderately sharpened edges

Source: Military Antiques and Collectibles of the Great War A Canadian Collection

He then attended Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk

Four magnetic metal rivets maintain the structure of the frog

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class With Case, By E. Ferdinand Wiedmann certificate_of_authenticity the services rendered by French(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 with a crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics