Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed (Jungmädelbund Leistungsabzeichen)

(Jungmädelbund Leistungsabzeichen)

Silver for Officers

before being sent to the southern front to command South Ukraine Army Group (later renamed the Army Group Southeast)

Woldemar Freiherr Grote (1877–1957)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed (Jungmädelbund Leistungsabzeichen)(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of brass and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened brass 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 with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 93 mm (w) x 43. 74 mm (h), weighing 19. 6 grams,