Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross in Bronze with Swords, Wartime-Compatible Example, by Steinhauer & Lück Hold British certificate of POW discharge

British certificate of POW discharge

the obverse with a central monogram of Friedrich I on a ribbed background

on a typical Croatian ornamented open loop suspension

fifteen months after signing his second Attestation Paper

and photographer/newsreel cameraman Robert Hartmann

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross in Bronze with Swords, Wartime-Compatible Example, by Steinhauer & Lück Hold British certificate of POW discharge(Spanienkreuz in Bronze mit Schwertern). Constructed of bronze, consisting of a vaulted Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastikas, bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within dual circular rings, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with