Germany, Ss. A Rare Ss 12-Year Long Service Award, Stick Pin Miniature Auction Archive Footnote: The War Cross was

Footnote: The War Cross was instituted on January 26

The sweatband is crafted out of grey-coloured leather and is perforated towards the front of the cap

with unsharpened edges

perished in a murder-suicide when he detonated a pair of grenades as the family sat down to dinner at their home in the Babelsberg neighbourhood of Berlin on 24 April 1945

Germany, Ss. A Rare Ss 12-Year Long Service Award, Stick Pin Miniature Auction Archive Footnote: The War Cross was(SS Dienstauszeichnung. II. Stufe fr 12 Jahre Anstecknadel). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a swastika with ribbed arms, bearing central raised double Sig runes, situated within a circular oak leaf wreath, unmarked, measuring 10. 80 mm (w) x 10. 89 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.