Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, 1957 Version by Rudolf Souval, c. 1970 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac both constructed of khaki-tan cotton

both constructed of khaki-tan cotton twill and trimmed with golden-yellow piping

XIII - The Armistice and the Happy Home Coming

the explosion of which he did not hear

120 mm x 305 mm)

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, 1957 Version by Rudolf Souval, c. 1970 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac both constructed of khaki-tan cotton(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub Ausfhrung 1957). Constructed of iron, silver, and neusilber, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed neusilber frame, the obverse with three central oak leaves, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm topped by an eyelet affixed with a Oak Leaves, constructed