Germany, Third Reich. A Flak Badge, by C.E. Juncker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac obverse engraver marked "VOCKE

obverse engraver marked "VOCKE

ribbed black celluloid

The interior is lined in sheepskin in both the body of the jacket itself

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Poverty forced him to leave school early and start working at the age of eleven

Germany, Third Reich. A Flak Badge, by C.E. Juncker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac obverse engraver marked "VOCKE(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a replacement round wire catch emanating from an oval baseplate, unmarked but