Germany, Wehrmacht. A 4-Year Long Service Award, on Single Mount consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac demonstrating moderate soiling throughout the

demonstrating moderate soiling throughout the base

and the War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords

with four visible rivets

" Before the court he openly admitted his guilt in an "awful war

96mm (h – inclusive of cross adorned crowned suspension)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 4-Year Long Service Award, on Single Mount consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac demonstrating moderate soiling throughout the(Dienstauszeichnung der Wehrmacht, II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre). Instituted 16 March 1936. (1936 1945 issue). Constructed of magnetic metal, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon pinned with Heer Kriegsmarine device and affixed to a single mount with a horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of TREUE DIENSTE IN DER WEHRMACHT (FAITFHUL