Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant United Republic of including a South West Africa

including a South West Africa Medal

including a generic coastal artillery personnel sleeve badge

One distinguishes itself from the rest of the collection by offering a poem dedicated to the mothers of airplane pilots that died in the war effort

Köhl was born in Neu-Ulm

Volume XLVII

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant United Republic of including a South West Africa(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a restitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop