Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare German Cross in Gold, Cloth Version for Assault Gun Troops, with Dietrich Maerz Certification consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac After the “Anschluss”

After the “Anschluss”

supplemented by 127 plates featuring black-and-white photographs

The vast majority was awarded to partisans for actions during the Second World War

The next set was taken in the city of Pola

It took place at the town of Mahikeng (called Mafeking by the British) in South Africa over a period of 217 days

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare German Cross in Gold, Cloth Version for Assault Gun Troops, with Dietrich Maerz Certification consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac After the “Anschluss”(Deutsches Kreuz in Gold, Stoffausfhrung fr Sturmgeschtztruppen). A cloth version of the German Cross in Gold issued to Sturmgeschtztruppen (Assault Gun Troops), consisting of a double overlaid eight pointed starburst pattern, with a field grey wool base overlaid by machine embroidered slate grey threading, trimmed with machine embroidered silver aluminum wire rays, bearing a central white embroidered cloth disc overlaid by a black mobile swastika