Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class Gold Grade With Case, By Wächtler & Lange United Republic of It contains material for “Heimabende”

It contains material for “Heimabende” (social evenings)

and Victory Medal

30 March 1935: Transferred to the 10th 100-Man Detachment in Bremen

the lid bearing a gilt embossed maker’s mark of “WERNER SEDLATZEK

maker marked “Schwertner & Cie

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class Gold Grade With Case, By Wächtler & Lange United Republic of It contains material for “Heimabende”(Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker, I. Klasse in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central rosette set within a circular laurel leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 100 for Wchtler & Lange, Mittweida, measuring 49. 49 mm (w) x 49. 26 mm (h),