Germany, Third Reich. A 1944 Kufstein District Marksmanship Competition Participant’s Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with a central raised sword

with a central raised sword piercing a Hydra

The blade fits nicely into the crossguard

maker marked “Z” for R

The book is "Dedicated to those who suffered that we might still be free"

Germany, Third Reich. A 1944 Kufstein District Marksmanship Competition Participant’s Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with a central raised sword(Kreiss Schiessen Kufstein 1944 Erinnerungsabzeichen). Constructed of silvered feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised German national eagle perched on top of a rifle and bullseye target defaced by a mobile swastika, flanked by a depiction of Kufstein Fortress, and circumscribed by a banner bearing an inscription of KREISS SCHIESSEN KUFSTEIN 1944, the reverse with a diagonal pinback, unmarked, measuring 38 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), in near extremely fine