Germany, Third Reich. A 1938 Sudetenland Annexation Commemorative Badge Auction Archive and Day of the Two

and Day of the Two Crosses Stickpin (in aluminum with red paint

(Wehrmacht Kette)

including one with nine decorations

measuring 146 mm (w) x 226 mm (h)

Instituted June 1740 by Friedrich II (“the Great”) of Prussia

Germany, Third Reich. A 1938 Sudetenland Annexation Commemorative Badge Auction Archive and Day of the Two(Sudetenland Erinnerungsabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze, horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing of a central raised inscription of DIE HEIMET FREI 1. 10. X. 1938 (THE HOMELAND IS FREE 1 10 OCTOBER 1938), circumscribed by an inscription of WIR DANKEN UNSEREM FHRER! (WE THANK OUR FHRER!) and a cluster of oak leaves bearing a central insignia of the Sudetendeutscher Heimetbund (Sudeten German Homeland Association), unmarked, measuring 47 mm