Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction reverse illustrating a tablet inscribed

reverse illustrating a tablet inscribed "PRIX du MINISTRE de la GUERRE" (Award of the Minister of War)

lightly soiled original triangular ribbons

with an MP 40 submachine gun slung around his neck

There was "considerable amount of brain tissue lost and pulsation (was) plainly visible over (the) area of (the) wound"

held in place with a strap fed through the ring and held in place via a buckle

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction reverse illustrating a tablet inscribed(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