Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and the partitioning powers abolished

and the partitioning powers abolished the decoration and prohibited its wearing

numbered and maker marked M 1/34 (Karl Wurster)

the chin strap in bullion wrapped around a white cord

An interesting and extremely well-preserved signed postwar letter from Großadmiral Karl Dönitz

It is marked on the reverse with a RZM logo and maker code “M1/24” for Overhoff & Cie

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and the partitioning powers abolished(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 metal 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, the suspension