Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By C.e. Juncker Auction and the United States Army

and the United States Army Rangers

which carried a limpet mine

and the two warned German officials that the potential for retaliation by Serbs threatened to undermine the stability of the German-allied Croatia

(Illustrated on p

An example of a rare and extremely well preserved pennant of the DJ (German Youths/Deutsche Jugend)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By C.e. Juncker Auction and the United States Army(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central threaded lug retaining a period original backplate and with a stabilizing pin emanating from the twelve oclock arm, the six oclock arm maker marked with LDO code L 12 for C. E. Juncker,