Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, with Case, by the Vienna Mint consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Preliminary Knight's Cross Award

A Preliminary Knight's Cross Award Document to Theodor Hopf

maker marked with a maker mark

Worcestershire Regiment (two-piece construction

with a date of “9 VI

and a German Cross in gold

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, with Case, by the Vienna Mint consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Preliminary Knight's Cross Award(Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered 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 date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FHRER (ONE PEOPLE,