Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class, By Otto Schickle Archive (Marschkompaß)

(Marschkompaß)

a return of the Sudetenland commemorative card

With the outbreak of the Second War

the reverse with an integral hinge and horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch

Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class, By Otto Schickle Archive (Marschkompaß)(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