Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 5mm (w) x 56mm (h)

5mm (w) x 56mm (h)

closing with a signature

He died of a heart attack while taking a swim in the Atlantic in occupied France

original issue

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 5mm (w) x 56mm (h)(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse in Silber ohne Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the reverse with a crimped hinge and wide vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a