Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case GTRexclude 1926 in Heidelberg (south-west Germany)

1926 in Heidelberg (south-west Germany)

takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Brigadier General William MasonFassett

while the visor and sweatband have dried and cracked with age

gradated in millimetres to a length of 1

Service Records and assorted research papers

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case GTRexclude 1926 in Heidelberg (south-west Germany)(Die Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, 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