German Republic. A German Cross In Gold, Alternative 1957 Version Auction and up the pillbox-rimmed heights

and up the pillbox-rimmed heights under intense enemy machine-gun and mortar fire and with A and B Companies of the 2nd Battalion and some elements of the 116th Infantry Regiment

that in December 1902

bronze gilt with light blue and dark blue enamels

Second Class - in gilded silver

German Republic. A German Cross In Gold, Alternative 1957 Version Auction and up the pillbox-rimmed heights(Deutsches Kreuz in Gold). A cross with a double overlaid sunburst pattern with eight points; the center with a denazified Iron Cross in the center, depicting a central oak branch consisting of three leaves, within a stamped gilded circular wreath impressed with oak leaves, ribbons, and the introduction year 1941; the inner and outer sides of the wreath feature a thin red enameled rings with a silver core in the middle; the reverse plain but with a