Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, with Case, by the Vienna Mint consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac maker marked with a maker

maker marked with a maker mark

A Preliminary Knight's Cross Award Document to Theodor Hopf

and a German Cross in gold

the reverse inscribed “Für Treue Dienste in der SS” (For Loyal Services in the SS) superimposed onto the numeral “4”

with a date of “9 VI

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, with Case, by the Vienna Mint consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac maker marked with a maker(Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 REICH, EIN FHRER (ONE PEOPLE,