Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, Screwback Version, by Hymmen & Co. Auction DSB: "Deutscher Siedlerbund"

DSB: "Deutscher Siedlerbund"

(Anschluss Österreichs Erinnerungsplakette)

Footnote: This badge was made in Brittany (Finistere) during the Second World War from tin expropriated from food cans

and nose was badly fractured

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, Screwback Version, by Hymmen & Co. Auction DSB: "Deutscher Siedlerbund"(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern an Schraubscheibe). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central threaded screwpost retaining an original backplate, the six oclock arm showing an illegible hand etched inscription which is presumably a recipients name, otherwise unmarked but