Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, with Case Hold encompassed by flowers

encompassed by flowers

Republic: 50th Anniversary of Victory in the Second World War Medal 1945-1995 (in gilt aluminum with red enamels

In the rank of Brigadier General

It is plain with the exception of a maker’s mark on the reverse ricasso reading “ALCOSO

Military Cemeteries and Memorials

Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, with Case Hold encompassed by flowers(Deutsche Olympia Ehrenzeichen 1936 mit Etui). Constructed of magnetic metal, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a central raised column overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, topped by Olympic rings, and flanked by a date of 1936, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELE 1936 (FOR MERITORIOUS