Rare german propaganda medal from the Weimar Republic, showing opposition to the stationing of black French soldiers in German territory, on the Rhine. The medal refers quite clearly to the sexual abuse of German women by these soldiers.
Medal by Karl Goetz.
Much rarer, small specimen with diameter of 36 mm.
Obverse: caricature of a black soldier with an earring, wearing a French helmet with the monogram RF (République française, French Republic)
DIE WACHT AM RHEIN!!, 1920 / LIBERTE / ÉGALITÉ / FRATERNITÉ (Watch on the Rhine!! Brotherhood of Freedom and Equality)
Reverse: naked slave woman, with her hands tied behind her back to a giant phallus, topped by a French soldier's helmet, with the all-seeing eye of God looking at her, a broken lyre on the left
DIE SCHWARZE SHANDE (Black Shame); below the signature K. G.
Diameter 36 mm, weight 25.57 g
