Germany, Third Reich. A Pair of Decorations for the Anschluss and Pact of Steel Hold Military Merit Cross - 3rd

Military Merit Cross - 3rd Class

The sword is still carried in the original very large iron scabbard with two hanging rings

the other with a screwback)

was that of Lieutenant Josef "Jos" Ghys in Operation Chaucer

Germany, Third Reich. A Pair of Decorations for the Anschluss and Pact of Steel Hold Military Merit Cross - 3rd(Auszeichungen). A pair of decorations, including: 1. An Anschluss Medal, 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 date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK,