Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed Mother's Cross - Silver Grade

Mother's Cross - Silver Grade - Silvered bronze and enamels

After twelve days' hospitalization at Rouen

on suspension ring carrying the Gold oak leaf affixed loose in the so-called baroque eyelet

the obverse depicting a flood

The cover page states: “pictures from the war life of my brother Heinz”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed Mother's Cross - Silver Grade(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