Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Förster & Barth certificate_of_authenticity marked SILVER and dated "1945"

marked SILVER and dated "1945" on rim

it features remarks by Emperor Franz Joseph dated 23 March 1908

He committed suicide as a prisoner of US forces on May 10

Footnote: This Order was issued by King Nicholas I while in exile in France

to be awarded to those who qualified as deportees or internees for acts of resistance

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Förster & Barth certificate_of_authenticity marked SILVER and dated "1945"(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a clip hinge emanating from a circular baseplate and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an identical baseplate, maker marked with LDO code L 21 for