1938 Physical Education Swimming Championships Award certificate_of_authenticity The funeral procession left the

The funeral procession left the chapel to a muffled drum beat and moved to the graveside where the guards of honor representing the German Armed Forces

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1938 Physical Education Swimming Championships Award certificate_of_authenticity The funeral procession left the1938 Physical Education Swimming Championships Award Obverse with a white bakelite centrepiece illustrating the DRL (Deutscher Reichsbund fr Leibesbungen) insignia, high relief, embedded into a circular wooden frame, inscribed in gold coloured ink "Erste Groe Deutsche Schwimm Meisterschaften Darmstadt 8. 10. Juli 1938" (First Great German Swimming Championships Darmstadt July 8 10, 1938) on the reverse, 69. 7 mm, crack to the left of the DRL insignia,