OKTOBER 1938 Sudetenland MEDAL AWARD WITH ORIGINAL CASE WITH THIRD REICH EAGLE
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OKTOBER 1938 Sudetenland COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL AWARD WITH ORIGINAL CASE WITH THIRD REICH EAGLE
ROUGH CONDITION BUT STILL VERY NICE. THE EAGLE ON THE BOX IS AMAZING AND THE MEDAL IS ONE OF THE FINEST MAKER VARIATION WITH AN AMAZING PATINA
The 1 October 1938 Commemorative Medal (German: Die Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938), commonly known as the Sudetenland Medal was a decoration of Nazi Germany awarded during the interwar period, and the second in a series of Occupation Medals.
Instituted on 18 October 1938, the medal was awarded to participants in the occupations of Sudetenland in October 1938 and Czechoslovakia in March 1939.
The medal was awarded to all German State officials and members of the German Wehrmacht and SS who entered the Sudetenland on 18 October 1938, and to Sudeten Nazis who had worked for union with Germany. Later a special bar for attachment to the ribbon was introduced for participation in the occupation of the remnants of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939, and to others who rendered valuable support. Last awarded on 31 December 1940, a total of 1,162,617 medals and 134,563 bars were bestowed.
The wearing of Nazi era awards was banned in 1945. The Sudetenland medal was not among those awards reauthorized for official wear by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957.
