Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland Medal, with Case Auction Archive surrounded by the inscription IGNORANTDE

surrounded by the inscription IGNORANTDE DATOS NE QUISQUAM SERVIAT ENSES (They Don’t Know That You Can’t Follow Anyone)

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered golden-yellow Reichsbahn-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

The Maginot Line was impervious to most forms of attack

measuring 227 mm (w) x 303 mm (h) x 24 mm (d)

on a full length period original ribbon

Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland Medal, with Case Auction Archive surrounded by the inscription IGNORANTDE(Die Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central date of 1. OKTOBER 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN