Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords GTRexclude he noticed that the street

he noticed that the street lighting was extinguished and the area was in darkness

the central plate affixed by two nuts and bolts on the reverse

There is a slot behind the left waist pocket

British 8th Army

Deutschlands Ritter- und Verdienst-Orden der Gegenwart (Germany’s Knight and Order of Merit of the Present)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords GTRexclude he noticed that the street(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, with crossed swords through the centerpiece, the reverse with a screw and backplate, unmarked, measuring 49. 21 mm (w) x 48. 32 mm (h), weighing 29. 7 grams (inclusive of backplate), in near extremely fine condition.