GERMAN FIRST WORLD WAR IRON CROSS 1ST & 2ND CLASS

Regular Britain at War contributor, Robin Schaefer, takes a look at these iconic and well-recognised German decorations of the Great War in our regular series covering aspects of militaria collecting.

MILITARIA COLLECTING

The Iron Cross was originally instituted in 1813, during the wars against Napoleonic France and was reinstituted only in times when there was a: ‘declared danger for the Fatherland’.

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