1920's BAKELITE SNUFF BOX INSET KARL GOETZ MEDALS 53mm BLACK SHAME - WHITE METAL

Description

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Box diameter 70mm (max), Depth 30mm, Medals diameter 53mm.
A 1920's Bakelite snuff box. The two halves seal with a screw thread in very good condition. The box still has traces of snuff which I have left in place. The most unusual aspect is that the top and bottom have a medal inserted as decoration. This is the white metal version of Die Wacht Am Rhein. A propaganda medal designed by Karl Goetz and struck in 1921 (details below). The lid has the obverse showing and the base has the reverse. There are signs of wear as would be expected from long term use is around the outer edge of the medal on the lid. The letter W is almost obliterated from "Wacht" also light wear to the !! on same. I am assuming two separate medals and not one split. The medals are attached in recesses probably with some type of adhesive. Next to the Lusitania medal, it is undoubtedly the most famous of all of Karl Goetz's medals.
BAKELITE SNUFF BOX KARL GOETZ WHITE METAL BLACK SHAME MEDALS.
The Watch on the Rhine / The Black Shame
(Die Wachte am Rhein / Die Schwarze Schmach),
Struck Satirical Medal,
by Karl Goetz,
1921, a grotesque carcarciture of a French colonial black African soldier, helmeted head right, DIE WACHT AM RHEIN (the watch on the Rhine), the motto of the French republic below, rev., a naked female tied to a
realistic erect phallus,
surmounted by a French helmet, DIE SCHWARZE SCHMACH (the black disgrace), all beneath the all seeing eye.
1920 : The year the Versailles Treaty started and the Rhine land occupation began
The very evocative imagery employed on this medal, with it's crude caricature of the French colonial soldier and it's allusion to rape and sexual violence is one of Goetz's most graphic. Under the terms of the Armistice following the end of World War I the western allied powers occupied the Rhineland. Many of the troops garrisoned there were colonial troops from France's colonial empire in Africa. German indignation at the occupation was further exasperated by the presence of these black troops on German territory. Rumours quickly spread that these troops were committing rape, mutilation and murder against the local population and most particularly German women. These accusations were false and were for the most part the creation of the German press and local prejudices. Some German women did however marry French African soldiers, the product of their unions being labelled the "Rhineland Bastards", their very existence adding further shame in eyes of some Germans to their defeat and occupation. Specifically referred to by Hitler in Mein Kampf, the mixed race children of these unions were arrested and sterilized as adults when the Nuremberg race laws were introduced in 1935.
The very evocative imagery employed on this medal, with it's crude caricature of the French colonial soldier and it's allusion to rape and sexual violence is one of Goetz's most graphic. Under the terms of the Armistice following the end of World War I the western allied powers occupied the Rhineland. Many of the troops garrisoned there were colonial troops from France's colonial empire in Africa. German indignation at the occupation was further exasperated by the presence of these black troops on German territory. Rumours quickly spread that these troops were committing rape, mutilation and murder against the local population and most particularly German women. These accusations were false and were for the most part the creation of the German press and local prejudices. Some German women