Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards for Second World War and Civil Service Newly Listed Instituted 30 August 1913 by

Instituted 30 August 1913 by Prince Regent Ludwig

III Class Merit Medal (in bronze with red and white enamels

he was awarded the Silver Star for actions on April 5

surrounded by a green enameled laurel wreath with a blue enameled vertical sword

by 1943 it had largely become a vehicle for the dissemination of National Socialist propaganda in the Protectorate

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards for Second World War and Civil Service Newly Listed Instituted 30 August 1913 by(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards for Second World War and civil service, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 05 mm in diameter, weighing 17. 3 grams (inclusive of