Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post
Nice find. Hope if you find the history behind it you share it.
Who knows who it was awarded to ??? Obviously someone who had served in WW1, and received that honour for bravery.......and then it falls into to the hands of a US guard in 1945-46 at Nuremberg.
Nuremburg is in Bavaria, so the guard could well have purchased it from a militaria shop....or been given it by one of the defendants at the trial.
The history is lost in time....we'll never know.