Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Bronze Merit Medal With Swords, By The Vienna Mint Buy Now making it a propaganda event

making it a propaganda event and celebration for heroes in the field rather than the dead

measuring 81 mm (w) x 81

both fish on a pebbled background

1910 at the age of 20

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Bronze Merit Medal With Swords, By The Vienna Mint Buy Now making it a propaganda event(Orden vom Deutschen Adler, Verdienstmedaille in Bronze mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1943 1945 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised depiction of the Order of the German Eagle consisting of a Maltese Cross with quadrants joined by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised