Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 Archive measuring 140 mm (w) x

measuring 140 mm (w) x 92 mm (h)

His unit was tasked with the guarding of POWs

and weighing 14

The lower third features intricate acid-etched arabesque latticework

surrounded by a ring of black enamels inscribed “Preussens Tapferen Kriegern” in gilded capital letters

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 Archive measuring 140 mm (w) x(Feuerwehrehrenzeichen). Instituted June 22nd, 1936. Two piece construction in silvered bronze, white, black, and red enamels, with a band in the quadrants between the arms of the cross inscribed with Fr Verdienste im Feuerlschwesen (For Merit in Fire Fighting) in capitalised German lettering, the obverse with a white enamelled Greek cross bearing red enamelled flames on all arms of the cross with a central medallion bearing a mobile black enamelled