Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Medal, Women’s Issue Archive case in extremely fine condition

case in extremely fine condition

surrounded by the inscription "EARL OF ABERDEEN - GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA - COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN - 1893"

reverse inscribed "DISTRICT MEDAL" in an arch in the centre

Footnote: This order was the oldest military order of the states of the German Empire

Dihm settled in Starnberg where he died in 1956

Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Medal, Women’s Issue Archive case in extremely fine condition(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege fr Frauen). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original bow tie ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised and pebbled Geneva Cross, overlaid by a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of MEDAILLE FR DEUTSCHE VOLKSPFLEGE (MEDAL FOR THE CARE OF THE