Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer visually-hidden Courtnay (Flanders)

Courtnay (Flanders)

Mounted to a conjoined leather-framed suspension with both medals secured in place to a folded-over leather tab via a button

Eigentun der Obersten SA Führung” on the revese

of the Medal of Honor or the French Médaille Militaire who served in France or French possessions during the First World War of the Second World War

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer visually-hidden Courtnay (Flanders)(Medaille). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse bearing a raised depiction of an Allied soldier humiliating a German civilian, circumscribed by an inscription of SCHWARZE SCHMACH UND KULTURSCHANDE AM RHEIN (BLACK SHAME AND CULTURAL SHAME ON THE RHINE), the reverse bearing a central depiction of a broken sword topped by an inscription of DEUTSCHER NOT UND SCHMACH TALER (GERMAN DISTRESS AND DISGRACE TALER), the obverse engraver marked WITTIG,