Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Medal Auction Archive A top quality example

A top quality example

After sixteen days treatment at Manchester

the bottom exhibiting edge wear and soiling

with near-total oxidation evident

Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Medal Auction Archive A top quality example(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Geneva Cross, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of MEDAILLE FR DEUTSCHE VOLKSPFLEGE (MEDAL FOR CARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE), unmarked, measuring 38. 15 mm in diameter, weighing