Germany, Third Reich. A Memel Medal, by the Berlin Mint GTRexclude the panels are rolled up

the panels are rolled up and secured in place with two blackened and pebbled zink buttons which emanate from the right panels and meet an equal number of reinforced buttonholes on the left panel

each of which has fold over flaps and are lined in dark gray rayon

a hammer in his right hand

47mm diameter

and one issued to Josef Shulik (b

Germany, Third Reich. A Memel Medal, by the Berlin Mint GTRexclude the panels are rolled up(Medaille zur Erinnerung an die Heimkehr des Memellandes). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central inscription of ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DIE HEIMKEHR DES MEMELLANDES 22. MARCH 1939 (TO COMMEMORATE THE RETURN OF