Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude released from captivity in August

released from captivity in August 1945

with gilded leaf above

1916 and promoted to Acting Sergeant on December 1

the reverse identical

length aprox

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude released from captivity in August(Nahkampfspange in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a central square laurel leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, flanked on each side by four sun rays and oak leaves with acorns, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and fluted horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by