Germany, Wehrmacht. A I. Class Iron Cross 1939, By Fritz Zimmermann United Republic of featuring a multi-chain link

featuring a multi-chain link

101-51" on the reverse

he was transferred to the 54th Infantry Battalion

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A I. Class Iron Cross 1939, By Fritz Zimmermann United Republic of featuring a multi-chain link(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939 by A. H. (Issued 1939 1945). 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 plain, with a slender banjo style vertical pinback, a barrel hinge, and a flat wire catch, marked 6. for Fritz Zimmermann on the