Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Ring in silvered bronze (silvering

Ring in silvered bronze (silvering nearly completely worn off)

the other eight have been taken outdoors

professional skill and devotion to duty

It contains 720 pages

Betzinger was fighting on both sides of Mount Gankashvaara

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Ring in silvered bronze (silvering(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 39. 10 mm (w) x 44. 45 mm (h), weighing 13. 7 grams,