Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Auction Archive mounted to a silver gilt

mounted to a silver gilt and black enamelled Maltese cross base

It states that Pawelski worked as a medical orderly in camps I Ebensee and D

" in black handwritten text

34 mm (w) x 41

notably receiving the Pour le Mérite for his efforts in revolutionizing battlefield reconnaissance

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Auction Archive mounted to a silver gilt(Abzeichen fr Blockadebrecher). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a circular chain link wrath, surrounding a central depiction of a blockade runner cutting through waves and breaking the chain, with its bow overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika in mid flight and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked