Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case Archive Instituted 15 November 1878 by

Instituted 15 November 1878 by Grand Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter

60mm (w) x 47mm(h)

Frances Melodie Willis-O'Connor and Hugh Raymond Willis-O'Connor

) of “0/0661/0016” for an unidentified manufacturer

gilt eagle on the ribbon)

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case Archive Instituted 15 November 1878 by(Die Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 raised date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscrbed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FHRER