on an enameled white background bearing an enameled red letter R
Netherlands
though most of these records are still held in provincial archives
The Iron Cross 1939 Second Class Class certificate is named to Obergefreiter Hitzl of the 1st Battery of Sturmgeschütz (assault gun) Battalion 270
Germany, Federal Republic. An Anti-Partisan Badge, by Rudolf Souval, Exhibition Example, c. 1960 Auction Archive on an enameled white background(Bandenkampfabzeichen). Instituted January 30th, 1944. (Post May 1945 manufacture c. 1960). Constructed of silvered tombac, the obverse consisting of an oval oak wreath joined together at the base by a raised skull and crossbones, overlaid by a vertical sword bearing a sunwheel style swastika at the ricasso, in turn plunging into a nest of vipers, the reverse plain, with a sheet metal hinge, vertical round wire catch, and sheet metal hinge, unmarked