Westwall Defense medal
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The medal was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Gerald Schwab.
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Westwall Defense medal
overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 1.300 inches (3.302 cm) | Depth: 0.120 inches (0.305 cm)
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Medal; metal, oval-shaped medal with brown and white ribbon; medal has eagle with wings spread, perched on wreath around a swastika; under swastika has a sword crossed with a shovel over the corner of a wall; two feathers at very bottom; reverse reads"FUR / ARBEIT / ZUM / SCHUTZE / DEUTSCH / LAND"; the edge of both sides has a wreath pattern; loop at top, with hoop through loop; brown ribbon with two white stripes on either side folded in half, threaded through loop; edges not sewn together.