Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Medal, Ii Class United Republic of the text on the front

the text on the front cover and the spine in a silver-coloured ink

not including the tailpiece

Frankfurt-on-Oder (7

before being sent to concentration camps

and three and a half years in the South African Constabulary in the Boer War

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Medal, Ii Class United Republic of the text on the front(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). Constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing a central raised date of 1938, unmarked, measuring 40. 11 mm (w) x