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GERMANY: Weimar Republic, AE medal (51.1g), 1920, AU

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GERMANY: Weimar Republic, AE medal (51.1g), 1920, AU
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GERMANY: Weimar Republic, AE medal (51.1g), 1920, Kienast-262, 55mm bronze medal for the Watch on the Rhine by Karl Goetz, bust of helmeted colonial soldier right with "DIE WACHT AM RHEIN !!" around with "1920" in left field and LIBERTÉ / ÉGALI - TÉ / FRATERNI / TÉ at lower left // nude German woman tied to large helmeted phallus with broken lyre at left, all-seeing eye in upper left field, and DIE SCHWARZE - SCHANDE (The Black Shame) around, later casting, plain edge, AU, ex Joe Sedillot Collection. Certainly one of Goetz' most controversial and graphic designs, it was produced to protest the sending of French colonial troops from Africa to guard the Rhine Territory. "The Black Shame" was a term used by the right-wing German Nationalist press as propaganda following allegations of widespread crimes (especially sexual crimes) against troops from Senegal, Indochina, and Madagascar. Hitler later blamed Jews for bringing Senegalese into the Rhineland.