Germany, Imperial. A Black Grade Wound Badge, Cut-Out Version Newly Listed basic equipment and other propaganda

basic equipment and other propaganda material were locally made

(NS-Reichsjugendtag Abzeichen)

and from 1943 onward

named to “LEUTNANT (JGN

Schleich ordered his plane to be painted all black

Germany, Imperial. A Black Grade Wound Badge, Cut-Out Version Newly Listed basic equipment and other propaganda(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened magnetic iron, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm on top of crossed swords on a hollow background, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 96 mm (w) x 43. 27 mm (h), weighing 8. 3 grams, with oxidation evident, in very fine condition.