Germany, Heer. A Demjansk Shield Auction Archive Cross (Cruz)

Cross (Cruz)

It was due to "the satisfaction of the country and the Armies for the result of the military operations carried out in the territories of Spanish West Africa" (War of Ifni)

oxidation on silver

loose red thread in left side stripe

Germany, Heer. A Demjansk Shield Auction Archive Cross (Cruz)(rmelschild Demjansk). Constructed of silvered magnetic iron, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a pair of crossed swords, situated over a plane and above a date of 1942, topped by an inscription of DEMJANSK, culminating in a German national eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked on each side by log pillboxes, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to an oval magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner