Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Alfred Stübbe Auction Archive With a tremendously heavy heart

With a tremendously heavy heart I dismiss this exceptional General Staff Officer and highly capable Pilot Officer leave our department

The Order was later suppressed in 1947 after the abolition of the Romanian monarchy

stitched into place using black thread

with a copper button at the neck end

Kingdom: Commemorative Medal for the Liberation of Upper Hungary 1938 (in bronze

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Alfred Stübbe Auction Archive With a tremendously heavy heart(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Latin Cross, the obverse with blue and white enameled arms, with a central white enameled disc bearing a black swastika, circumscribed by a raised inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER), the reverse engraved with an institution date of 16. DEZEMBER 1938