Germany, Wehrmacht. A Demjansk Shield GTRexclude in a horizontal rectangular shape

in a horizontal rectangular shape with rounded-off top corners

After the German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad

he departed LeHavre on February 8

and pinned with aluminum Totenkopf cyphers

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Demjansk Shield GTRexclude in a horizontal rectangular shape(Demjanskschild). Constructed of magnetic metal, the obverse bearing a pair of crossed swords overlaid a frontal depiction of a propeller plane, situated above a raised date of 1942, topped by an inscription of DEMJANSK, and culminating in a central German national eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn flanked by a pair of log pillboxes, attached with four side clips to a magnetic metal backplate with a postwar replacement dark