Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Medal Hold and March 23

and March 23

and is approximately 30mm (or 1 ¼ inches) tall

65 mm x 79 mm

image of the clasp in silver on the lid

with a silver Iron Cross inscribed MIT GOTT FUR KOENIG UND VATERLAND 1813 (With God for King and Country 1813)

Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Medal Hold and March 23(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Geneva Cross, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of MEDAILLE FR DEUTSCHE VOLKSPFLEGE (MEDAL FOR CARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE), unmarked, measuring 38. 15 mm in diameter, weighing