Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac VII - The FIrst Gas

VII - The FIrst Gas Attack 22nd April

on loop for suspension (marked “40” for Berg & Nolte

The cotton band inside exhibits wear at the waistline

89 mm (w) x 88

attached on the center of the two wings

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac VII - The FIrst Gas(Die Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, 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 date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN