Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Paris and Vienna

Paris and Vienna

weighing 14 grams inclusive of its ribbon and hanger

the document dated September 4

missing both of its reverse attachment prongs

2 mm x 63 mm

Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Paris and Vienna(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered feinzink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Geneva Cross overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of MEDAILLE FR DEUTSCHE VOLKSPFLEGE (MEDAL FOR CARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE), unmarked, measuring 38. 14 mm in diameter, weighing