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 on the Commonwealth War Graves

on the Commonwealth War Graves website

hairline cracks in enamels

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

constructed of multi-coloured twill

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 on the Commonwealth War Graves(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