Germany, Wehrmacht. A German Cross In Gold, Cloth Version, By Hermann Schmuck & Cie Hold with a widow’s ribbon

with a widow’s ribbon

measuring 81 mm (w) x 25 mm (h)

The fourth postcard illustrates a standing Lieutenant Schleich

unusually heavy

The next morning we thought they would never send a truck to bring us back to Yangkai

Germany, Wehrmacht. A German Cross In Gold, Cloth Version, By Hermann Schmuck & Cie Hold with a widow’s ribbon(Deutsches Kreuz in Gold, Stoffausfhrung). Instituted 28 September 1941. (1941 1945 issue). Constructed of a double overlaid field grey sunburst pattern with eight points, with the bottom outer layer of the cross in silver aluminum bullion threading, while the rest consists of dark grey threading, the cross features a stamped gilded tombak circular wreath impressed with oak leaves, ribbons, and the institution year 1941, the inner and outer sides of