Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case Hold due to poor health contracted

due to poor health contracted on active duty and placed on the Retirement List on Nov 4

stating that Falkenhagen of the 2nd Group of Training Wing 1 has been promoted to Lieutenant

died in hospital a week later and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery

with a small slit on the lid for the insertion of money - the lid possibly removable but currently seized into place

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case Hold due to poor health contracted( Die Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered 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 raised date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN