Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer visually-hidden Silver-plated brass hilt fittings show

Silver-plated brass hilt fittings show moderate wear to finish on pommel & crossguard

Following this initial taste of air combat

of the Medal of Honor or the French Médaille Militaire who served in France or French possessions during the First World War of the Second World War

Courtnay (Flanders)

To suppress the mutiny

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer visually-hidden Silver-plated brass hilt fittings show(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,