A WW1 second Class Iron Cross non-combatant award to a Max
Baier. The Ribbon is the reverse of the standard Iron cross second class ribbon. However this award is scarce because the date of the document is
1920. Its possible he was involved in some way with the conflict against Russia during that period. He probably belonged to the Freikorps (English: Free Corps) These were the German volunteer
military or paramilitary units. The term was originally applied to voluntary
armies formed in German lands from the middle of the 18th century onwards.
Between World War I and World War II the term was also used for the
paramilitary organizations that arose during the period of the Weimar Germany.
Freikorps units fought both for and against the German state. They formed the
vanguard of the Nazi movement.
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| Non-Combatant WW1 Iron Cross Second Class |
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| Scarce Iron Cross second class award document 1920 |
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