A War Merit Cross Second Class With Swords Hold as they should be

as they should be

It then had to retreat to Germany and suffered heavy losses on the way

1944 on Heinrich Himmler’s orders

clerk signed

on loop for suspension (marked “15” for Friedrich Orth of Wien/Vienna)

A War Merit Cross Second Class With Swords Hold as they should beA Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern; maltese cross in bronzed tombak; on loop for suspension (unmarked); with a correct full length replacement ribbon; the obverse with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse with a circular raised border of oak leaves bearing the institution date 1939 in raised numbering; measuring 48.