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Boxed Memel Medal Slanted "G" Type 1 - Medaille zur Erinnerung an die Heimkehr des Memellandes 22. März 1939
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£595.00
Tombac constructed Memel medal. Excellent condition. So called "Slanted G - Type 1” issue medal - by Hauptmünzamt, Wien. Early war medal with Hauptmünzamt 29 design. The medal comes in its original red box (A different Red from the oter flower awards) with eagle on front, and blue makers label on the back. Catch works well and is complete with an original white ribbon with a green strip in the middle and two red strips on each side, which are the historic colours of Lithuania. The ribbon has the correct hanging pin to the rear
The Memel Medal Last of the "Flowers War medals and the hardest to find. Only 31,322 were issued The Wehrmacht monitored the award of the Memel medal more closely than any of the other "flower wars" medals since cooks, clerks, butlers, chauffeurs and maids had received the Austrian and Sudetenland medals. The Memellandes were part of Lithuania and contained a large ethnic German population and Hitler decided that it should be made part of the Reich in keeping with his notion of "living space."