Germany, Federal Republic. A Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1965 visually-hidden Five-pointed star

Five-pointed star

marked “Wilhelm Helbing

later helping consolidate its control

Women were first received into the Order in 1944

the former bearing a handwritten dedication to her brother

Germany, Federal Republic. A Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1965 visually-hidden Five-pointed star(Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, Museumsstck). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm topped by an integral loop connecting to an matching suspension ring retaining an original