An Official Press Photo Of Knight’s Cross Recipient Lieutenant Arthur Jahnke Newly Listed Medal of Merit on the

Medal of Merit on the Field of Glory

It is marked a “Behelfszahlungsmittel” (auxiliary currency) that was only valid inside the Wehrmacht and could not be used as public currency

All accompanied by the original box of issue

and that voting Adolf Hitler will result in “abrechnung” for all of the listed political events

Numbers of medals issued were: medals without clasp 299

An Official Press Photo Of Knight’s Cross Recipient Lieutenant Arthur Jahnke Newly Listed Medal of Merit on theA photo, measuring 175x125mm, near mint condition, lightly warped. It shows Knights Cross recipient Lieutenant Arthur Jahnke walking past a military band and honouring unit, Regiment 919 of the 709th Grenadier Division. The man in front of him is Division Commander Lieutenant General Karl Wilhelm von Schlieben (18941964), himself a recipient of the Knights Cross. The photo is dated to Montebourg (Brittany) on May 30, 1944. Footnote: Lieutenant Arthur