Germany, Wehrmacht. A German Cross In Gold, By Otto Klein & Co. United Republic of with matching chocolate brown piping

with matching chocolate brown piping along the top edge and flanking either side of the band

each running around its circumference: Its blue needle is stamped with an "N" (Norden) at on one end and sits upon a brass centre piece embedded in the core

Footnote: The medal was instituted in 1964

on a loop for supension from its period original ribbon

Medal in gilded silver

Germany, Wehrmacht. A German Cross In Gold, By Otto Klein & Co. United Republic of with matching chocolate brown piping(Deutsches Kreuz in Gold). Instituted 28 September 1941 by A. H. (Issued 1941 1945). Consisting of a double overlaid sunburst pattern with eight points, the center with a black enameled rotated mobile swastika, within a stamped gilded circular wreath impressed with oak leaves, ribbons, and the introduction year 1941, the inner and outer sides of the wreath feature a thin red enameled rings with a gilded core in the middle, the reverse with a barrel