Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Auction Archive awarding him Ehrenbürgerrecht (Honorary Citizenship)

awarding him Ehrenbürgerrecht (Honorary Citizenship)

the cover in a very thick card stock

A faceted silver gilt star with diagonal-ended rays

when he embarked Canada for the European theatre

An original black and white

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Auction Archive awarding him Ehrenbürgerrecht (Honorary Citizenship)(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 52 mm (w) x 43. 70 mm (h), weighing 16.