Germany, Third Reich. A Wartime Patriotic Porcelain Medal Hold buttonhole-style pinback

buttonhole-style pinback

It is an official propaganda photo that shows a wounded Senior Lieutenant and Company Leader giving instructions to a messenger

but textbook example by maker JFS

FITZGERALD / SAINT JOHN FUS

Germany, Third Reich. A Wartime Patriotic Porcelain Medal Hold buttonhole-style pinback(Patriotischer Medaille). Constructed of brown porcelain, the obverse bearing a raised central Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN GLAUBE, EIN WILLE, EIN ZIEL, SIEG! (ONE BELIEF, ONE WILL, ONE GOAL, VICTORY!), the reverse bearing a central raised depiction of U Boats and planes approaching a coastal landscape, circumscribed by a raised inscription of ES KANN HIER NUR EINER SIEGEN UND DAS