Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland Medal

(Sudetenland-Medaille). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original parade-mounted ribbon with a horizontal pinback and field-grey wool reverse liner, 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 “1. OKTOBER 1938”, circumscribed by an inscription of “EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FÜHRER” (“ONE PEOPLE, ONE NATION, ONE LEADER”), unmarked, measuring 32.09 mm in diameter, weighing 24.8 grams (inclusive of ribbon and mount), in extremely fine condition.