Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I. Class, by Fritz Zimmermann consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Fahrtenmesser)

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A HIAG (Mutual Aid Association of Former Waffen-SS Members) Tracing Service file for SS-Sturmmann Wilhelm Schlüter

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Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I. Class, by Fritz Zimmermann consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Fahrtenmesser)(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). A textbook example of an Iron Cross 1939 First Class by Fritz Zimmermann of Stuttgart. Consisting of a Cross Patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse is plain, with a barrel hinge, a slender banjo style vertical pinback, and a