Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Spanish-Made For Blue Division Veterans GTRexclude featuring machine embroidered (in Sütterlin

featuring machine embroidered (in Sütterlin script) "Großdeutschland"

Vizefeldwebel Carl Schmidt

he was declared a national hero of Peru and the Order was instituted as a permanent reminder of his courage and self-sacrifice

in May 1941

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Spanish-Made For Blue Division Veterans GTRexclude featuring machine embroidered (in Sütterlin(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse eines spanischen Freiwilligen der Blauen Division). Constructed of a blackened and silvered zink alloy, on loop for suspension from a mis matched War Merit Cross ribbons with a silvered brass buckle and horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened and pebbled 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