Description
in accordance with the wishes of the Duke of Braunschweig
Commemorative Medal for the 60th Anniversary for the End of the Second World War and the Slovak National Uprising 1944-2006
suspended from a broad loop
with embroidered oakleaf wreath and one sea gull
and piped in twisted silvery flat wires and black threads
Germany, Third Reich. An Order of the German Eagle, V Class Cross with Swords, by C.F. Zimmermann Auction in accordance with the wishes(Deutscher Adlerorden Kreuz V. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1943 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms, all joined through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas on white enameled discs, the obverse overlaid across the three and nine oclock arms by gilded crossed swords, the twelve oclock arm topped by a fan