Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden Central Mechanization Depot

Central Mechanization Depot

obverse illustrating a full-length figure of a helmeted Italian soldier bestriding the Adriatic and planting a standard in Dalmatia

inscribed HONI * SOIT * QUI * MAL * Y * PENSE * (SHAME ON HIM WHO THINK ILL OF IT)

Private Albert Hugo Oder was with the 54th Infantry Battalion

3) An Bronze Grade Infantry Assault Badge with its Award Certificate

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden Central Mechanization Depot(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei