Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer GTRexclude overall the gilding on the

overall the gilding on the Minesweeper badge has worn off but the silvering is well preserved

awards inn extremely fine condition

measuring 52 mm (w) x 57 mm (h) inclusive of its laterally-pierced ball suspension

This probably due to gas infection but this man was in very poor condition from shock & hemorrhage from the first and never made a recovery from it

A Kriegsmarine Officer’s Breast Eagle - In yellow embroidered insignia on a black wool base

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer GTRexclude overall the gilding on the(Medaille). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse bearing a raised depiction of an Allied soldier humiliating a German civilian, circumscribed by an inscription of SCHWARZE SCHMACH UND KULTURSCHANDE AM RHEIN (BLACK SHAME AND CULTURAL SHAME ON THE RHINE), the reverse bearing a central depiction of a broken sword topped by an inscription of DEUTSCHER NOT UND SCHMACH TALER (GERMAN DISTRESS AND DISGRACE TALER), the obverse engraver marked WITTIG,