Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case Archive contact marks on the lower

contact marks on the lower band

the reverse with a central raised monogram of King Wilhelm I

one reverse bears a brooch style pinback

white metal insignia and beaver icon mounted to a bronze gilt base

The letter is a poem

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case Archive contact marks on the lower(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