Germany, Third Reich. A 1942 Zurich Italo-German Youth Sports Festival Merit Medal, with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac constructed of multi-coloured twill

constructed of multi-coloured twill

as evidenced by his photographs

the former clutching a shield bearing a blue enameled inscription of “QUIS UT DEUS” (“WHO IS LIKE GOD”)

the reverse side of the photo reads: to my dear Rita

Germany, Third Reich. A 1942 Zurich Italo-German Youth Sports Festival Merit Medal, with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac constructed of multi-coloured twill(Sportfest der Reichsdeutschen und Italienischen Jugend Erinnerungsmedaille mit Etui). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse bearing a raised fasces and German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of SPORTFEST DER REICHSDEUTSCHEN UND ITALIENISCHEN JUGEND IN DER SCHWEIZ, ZRICH 1942, FR BESONDERE LEISTUNG (SPORTS FESTIVAL OF GERMAN AND ITALIAN YOUTH IN SWITZERLAND, ZURICH 1942, FOR EXCEPTIONAL