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GERMANY, Weimar Republic. Germany's Crucifixion at Versailles. Cast Æ Medal (90mm, 196.10 g, 12h). By Karl Goetz. Dated 1919. DEVTSCHLANDS KARFREITAG (Germany's Good Friday), personification of Germany, looking to heaven, hands bound behind back, and feet shackled with balls and chains, standing facing on rocks; to left, figure offers her sponge soaked in vinegar, second holds placard inscribed SCHULD (Fault); to right, figure attempts to rip off her remaining clothes; in background, workers marching right, following banner inscribed GENERAL/STREIK; 1919 in exergue / the "Big Four" around globe; to left Lloyd George and Clemenceau casting lots; to right, Wilson, holding compass and seated in chair, and Orlando standing behind with hair on chair back, both looking up at hand emerging from clouds writing BOLSCEWI in flames; K · G to right of chair. Kienast 224. Brown surfaces, lightly rubbed at high points, hint of marks. As made.

From the PS Collection of Medals of the Great War. Ex Westfälische Auktionsgesellschaft 76 (7 September 2016), lot 890.