Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer visually-hidden 21st London Regiment (First Surrey

21st London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles) and Private Harold S

To suppress the mutiny

Silver-plated brass hilt fittings show moderate wear to finish on pommel & crossguard

Footnote: Formerly Stalag VIII-B and renamed Stalag-344 in 1943

Mounted to a conjoined leather-framed suspension with both medals secured in place to a folded-over leather tab via a button

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer visually-hidden 21st London Regiment (First Surrey(Medaille). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse bearing a raised depiction of an Allied soldier humiliating a German civilian, circumscribed by an inscription of SCHWARZE SCHMACH UND KULTURSCHANDE AM RHEIN (BLACK SHAME AND CULTURAL SHAME ON THE RHINE), the reverse bearing a central depiction of a broken sword topped by an inscription of DEUTSCHER NOT UND SCHMACH TALER (GERMAN DISTRESS AND DISGRACE TALER), the obverse engraver marked WITTIG,