Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Julius Bauer & Co. Auction Archive and War Merit Medal (bronze

and War Merit Medal (bronze

1936 - In fire gilded bronze and enamels

of WWII period German manufacture (and often awarded to German Officers)

1 of the Navy Corps

her gravestone engraved "Ein Leben für Deutschland" (A Life for Germany)

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Julius Bauer & Co. Auction Archive and War Merit Medal (bronze(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a crimped ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,