Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class Hold with a red linen hardcover

with a red linen hardcover

Keitel was promoted to Major General and appointed to the Armed Forces Office (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht)

In an early case of case of issue

with the signature of Reichsarbeitsführer Konstnatine Hierl in black ink

The next major campaign his unit was engaged in was the invasion of the East

Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class Hold with a red linen hardcoverAn example of an Iron Cross 1939 Second Class Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse; a cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border; on loop for suspension (unmarked); with its period original ribbon; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse with the original institution date 1813 in raised numbering on the lower