Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class, By Otto Schickle United Republic of with an original section of

with an original section of edelweiss that have been dried on the back on the album

It is dated to August 1

many of them in the throes of death

A 1914 Iron Cross II Class Document to Grenadier Paul Orth of the Machine Gun Unit in the 8th Leib Grenadier Regiment 10th Infantry Brigade

Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class, By Otto Schickle United Republic of with an original section of(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege I. Klasse). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Geneva Cross with white enameled arms, the obverse bearing a central black enameled German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika with feathering highlighted in gilt, the twelve oclock arm topped by a ribbed suspension ring bearing two oak leaves, in turn connecting to a