Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal Archive The wedding had already been

The wedding had already been scheduled

including a book belonging to Alfred Gey

central medallion depicting a black enamelled swastika ringed by a raised inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (THE GERMAN MOTHER)

fraying on the India Medal ribbon

Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal Archive The wedding had already been(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmedaille 1936). Constructed of magnetic metal, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a central raised Olympic column, topped by rings, flanked by a date of 1936, and overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN 1936 (FOR MERITORIOUS