Germany, Luftwaffe. An 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with 8 May 1945 Document, to Stabsgefreiter Fritz Demtröder Democratic Republic of the circumscribed in German Gothic lettering

circumscribed in German Gothic lettering Treue Dienste in der Wehrmacht (Faithful Service in the Armed Forces)

each constructed of brown wool with buckram cores and pinned with three silvered zink insignia

(SS Mützenabzeichen - 1

number engraved "71" on the reverse

Footnote: The Army of Italy (Armée d'Italie) was a field army of the French Army stationed on the Italian border and used for operations in Italy itself

Germany, Luftwaffe. An 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with 8 May 1945 Document, to Stabsgefreiter Fritz Demtröder Democratic Republic of the circumscribed in German Gothic lettering(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a restitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked, measuring 44.