Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne United Republic of Walks with a slight limp

Walks with a slight limp with (the) aid of a cane

likely of Italian or French manufacture

on white rayon backing

1945 due to fuel shortages

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne United Republic of Walks with a slight limp(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centre, the obverse with pebbled arms a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 96 mm (w) x 48. 10 mm (h),