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

Footnote: Formerly Stalag VIII-B and renamed Stalag-344 in 1943

In 1942 he was reassigned to the Wehrmacht as a Senior Lieutenant

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,