Medal "West Wall Medal"

Nazi Germany
Geben	Medaille
EIGNUNG	Militärisches Personal
Ausgezeichnet für	Personal, Bauten die Befestigungsanlagen auf Deutschland’s westlichen Grenzen
Gegründet	2 August 1939
Insgesamt vergeben	622,064

Die West Wall Medal was a military decoration of Nazi Germany. It was instituted on 2 August 1939 and was given to those who designed and built the fortifications on Germany’s western borders, known as the West Wall or, in English, the Siegfried Line, and to the troops who served there prior to May 1940. In 1944, as Germany was expecting the arrival of the allied invasion, it was again awarded to those who took part in the fortification of the western borders. In all 622,064 medals were awarded until the end of the war.