Germany, Third Reich. A Case for an Order of the German Eagle, Merit Cross II Grade, Pre-1943 Version Archive Footnote: The National Socialist Teachers

Footnote: The National Socialist Teachers League (German: Nationalsozialistische Lehrerbund

the Order was replaced by the Grand Order of the Throne

with handwritten entries indicating that Schreiner was born on 26 July 1926

The photo is dated on the reverse to March 28

a take-down tool (marked “KY 1939”)

Germany, Third Reich. A Case for an Order of the German Eagle, Merit Cross II Grade, Pre-1943 Version Archive Footnote: The National Socialist Teachers(Etui fr Verdienstorden vom Deutschen Adler Verdienstkreuz II. Stufe). Constructed of a pressed card stock frame with a faux red leather exterior liner, the lid bearing a gilt NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the interior with a padded white imitation silk lid liner and intact hinge cover, the former bearing a gilt inscription of VERDIENSTKREUZ II. STUFE DES ORDENS VOM DEUTSCHEN ADLER MIT SCHWERTERN (pre 1943