Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, with Case GTRexclude (Erster Pariser Frieden Kreuz)

(Erster Pariser Frieden Kreuz)

as well a Vienna silver Assay mark

(SS Sporthemd)

1873 in Terrington

He called it the “proudest and most humbling experience” of his life

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, with Case GTRexclude (Erster Pariser Frieden Kreuz)(Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN