Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, Single Mount Example Hold Zimmermann’s ruined Pforzheim factory

Zimmermann’s ruined Pforzheim factory

ISBN 0 540 07120 X

71mm (h – inclusive of integral suspension ring)

This particular buckle is illustrated on page 184 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, Single Mount Example Hold Zimmermann’s ruined Pforzheim factory(Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 Anschluss sterreich an Einzelbandschnalle). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a single bar 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,