measuring 578 mm with the scabbard on
green oxidation on one star point
the latter retaining traces of a date stamp of “1939”
Between February and late March he served in the 2nd Marschkompanie (Marching Company) VI/5
the first of twenty-six contingents from the Netherlands arriving in early December
Germany, Third Reich. A German Olympic Decoration Medallion Newly Listed measuring 578 mm with the(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmnze). Constructed of bronze, the obverse with an Olympic column topped by rings, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by a date of 1936, the reverse with an inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN 1936, above oak leaf branches, unmarked, measuring 36. 63 mm in diameter, weighing 17. 5 grams, in near extremely fine condition.