Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland Medal Archive 2nd Class (silvered metal and

2nd Class (silvered metal and black enamels

In September 1944 he earned the War Merit Cross in Silver

large rosette on an original 6th Class ribbon

Mayer & Shone

32 mm each)

Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland Medal Archive 2nd Class (silvered metal and(Sudetenland Medaille). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its correct replacement ribbon, the obverse presents with two raised male figures, the one on the right bearing the German flag in his left hand, with his right hand placed around the shoulders of the figure on the left, with broken chains around his right arm (symbolic of the liberation of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovak oppression), with the German eagle clutching a