Germany, Third Reich. A Medal for Merit in Animal Breeding United Republic of causing it to sink on

causing it to sink on December 15th

From the End of the Great War to the Present Day

including a Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung (National Socialist War Victim Care) membership badge

a recipient of the Pour le Mérite and the German Cross in Silver

At the end of the War it surrendered to the Red army in the Courland Pocket

Germany, Third Reich. A Medal for Merit in Animal Breeding United Republic of causing it to sink on(Medaille fr Leistungen in Tierzucht). Constructed of bronze, the obverse bearing a raised German national eagle in flight clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription Fr Besondere Leistungen in der Tierzucht (For Exceptional Merit in Animal Breeding), circumscribed by the inscription Der Reichsminister fr Ernhrung und Landwirtschaft (The Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture), unmarked, measuring 64. 4 mm in