Germany, Third Reich. A 1938 Sudetenland Annexation Commemorative Badge Auction Archive 70mm (w) x 30

70mm (w) x 30

5 mm Ribbon Bar with bronze gilt Chief Commander clasp

Instituted June 1740 by Friedrich II (“the Great”) of Prussia

measuring 146 mm (w) x 226 mm (h)

Germany, Third Reich. A 1938 Sudetenland Annexation Commemorative Badge Auction Archive 70mm (w) x 30(Sudetenland Erinnerungsabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze, horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing of a central raised inscription of DIE HEIMET FREI 1. 10. X. 1938 (THE HOMELAND IS FREE 1 10 OCTOBER 1938), circumscribed by an inscription of WIR DANKEN UNSEREM FHRER! (WE THANK OUR FHRER!) and a cluster of oak leaves bearing a central insignia of the Sudetendeutscher Heimetbund (Sudeten German Homeland Association), unmarked, measuring 47 mm