Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer Auction 123 mm x 158 mm

123 mm x 158 mm x 24

The scabbard is constructed of black painted steel (magnetic) depicting light wear and loss of finish

Saarlautern) on the ring

A Pour-le-Merite Recipient U9 Otto Weddigen Commemorative Ribbon - White silk ribbon screen-printed in black ink

and then led the 1st SS Panzer Corps at the Eastern Front

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer Auction 123 mm x 158 mm(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,