Saxony, Kingdom. A War Merit Cross Buy Now Kampf und Sieg der NSDAP”

Kampf und Sieg der NSDAP” (“Germany Awakes: The Coming

"BICYCLE TEAM" above and " GERMANY 1936" below

Oberstein an der Nahe” on the reverse

angled pinback

United States Coast Guard sailors

Saxony, Kingdom. A War Merit Cross Buy Now Kampf und Sieg der NSDAP”(Kriegsverdienstkreuz) Instituted 30 October 1915. An elongated iron cross paty constructed of bronze, the central medallion obverse bears the left facing portrait of Friedrich August III of Saxony, circumscribed with FRIEDRICH AUGUST KONIG V. SACHSEN, the 12 oclock arm bears a royal crown, the 6 oclock arm bears the date 1915, the reverse centre bears a crowned A cipher, the 9 and 3 oclock arms read WELT KRIEG, a wreath lays in the quadrants between