Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland Medal
(Sudetenland-Medaille). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its correct replacement ribbon, the obverse presents with two raised male figures, the one on the right bearing the German flag in his left hand, with his right hand placed around the shoulders of the figure on the left, with broken chains around his right arm (symbolic of the liberation of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovak oppression), with the German eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika directly below, the reverse presents with the date “1. Oktober 1938” centrally and is circumscribed “EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FÜHRER” (“One People, One Empire, One Leader”), unmarked, measuring 32 mm in diameter, in very fine condition.

