Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Decorations Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic reverse inscribed "NIEDER SACHSENS SOHNEN

reverse inscribed "NIEDER SACHSENS SOHNEN DIE DANKBARE HEIMAT" (Grateful Fatherland to the Sons of Lower Saxony) inside an open-ended wreath of oak leaves

He enlisted in the Wehrmacht in 1937 and initially served with the 77th Infantry Regiment

together with award document

The peak bears an aluminum insignia in the form of a second pattern NSKK-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Decorations Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic reverse inscribed "NIEDER SACHSENS SOHNEN(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of decorations, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 21 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 9 grams, in near mint condition. 2. An Italian German