Germany. A Cased 1936 Xi Summer Olympic Games Service Medal Auction Historians still debate the rationale

Historians still debate the rationale for the Russian military focus on this small fort town while there were many other more strategic targets along the Aegean coast

Kradschützen - motorcycle gunner

It was awarded for generous acts in war and in peace from the military

Royal 22nd Regiment and to the right was the 1st Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

3) A DRL (German League of the Reich for Physical Exercise/Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen) membership badge

Germany. A Cased 1936 Xi Summer Olympic Games Service Medal Auction Historians still debate the rationaleConstructed of silvered metal (magnetic); the obverse depicting a national eagle with spread wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika infront of the Olympic bell tower; the reverse inscribed Fr Verdienstvolle Mitarbeit bei den Olympischen Spielen 1936 (German For meritorious service at the Olympic games) with a stem of oak leaves directly beneath; on a loop for suspension from its period original ribbon featuring a sewn on horizontal pinback;