A War Merit Cross Second Class With Swords By Hermann Aurich certificate_of_authenticity having put in his name

having put in his name for the transfer as early as May 13

this Officer in HOS uniform Colonel’s uniform

likely produced pre war

4) A Christmas card inscribed “Wartime Christmas 1944 on R230”

A War Merit Cross Second Class With Swords By Hermann Aurich certificate_of_authenticity having put in his nameA Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern; maltese cross in bronzed zink; on loop for suspension (marked 113 for Hermann Aurich of Dresden); with a period original ribbon; the obverse with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse with a circular raised border of oak leaves bearing the institution date 1939 in raised numbering;