Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case Archive contact marks on the lower

contact marks on the lower band

one reverse bears a brooch style pinback

age-appropriate material fatigue is evident to the outer leather shell

measuring 146 mm x 103 mm

The letter is a poem

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case Archive contact marks on the lower(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