Germany, Third Reich. A German Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, with Case Hold Colonel Vassitch

Colonel Vassitch

36 mm (w) x 48

by Vanguard

a Professor Jozef Škultéty commemorative medal

Following its return to the United Kingdom in 1956

Germany, Third Reich. A German Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, with Case Hold Colonel Vassitch(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmedaille 1936 mit Etui). Instituted 31 July 1936. (1936 1937 issue). Constructed of silvered magnetic steel, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised column topped by Olympic ring, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, and flanked by a date of 1936, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN