Germany, Third Reich. A 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympics Games Table Medal Hold Footnote: The Army Distinguished Service

Footnote: The Army Distinguished Service Cross was instituted on January 2

1940 at Motepedre

Von Richthofen was reported leading six Jasta 11 machines on that occasion

marked "NATIONAL SERVICE MEDAL" on the lid

He led the 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS

Germany, Third Reich. A 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympics Games Table Medal Hold Footnote: The Army Distinguished Service(Olympische Winterspiele Tafelmedaille). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse bearing a stylized ski run, overlaid by the Olympic rings and a mobile swastika, flanked by a date of 1936, circumscribed by an inscription of IV. OLYMPISCHE WINTERSPIELE GARMISCH PARTENKIRCHEN, the reverse with a raised inscription of CITIUS ALTIUS FORTIUS (FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER), unmarked, measuring 60 mm in diameter, in near extremely fine condition.