Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer GTRexclude Fullsize: 41

Fullsize: 41

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

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

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

he died eighteen years to the day he suffered his shrapnel injuries

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer GTRexclude Fullsize: 41(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,