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After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire large numbers of German speaking Carinthian Slovenes settled in Slovenia in the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) after World War I. The Kärntner Volksabstimmung or Carinthian Plebiscite on 10 October 1920 determined the final southern border between Austria and the independent Balkan states.
Between 1938 and 1945 Carinthia formed part of the Reichsgau Kärnten. When Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Slovenia in April 1941, the ethnic German Carinthian Slovenes voted on whether or not they wanted to become citizens of the Third Reich. Overwhelmingly they did. This plebiscite as called Die Kärntner Volksabstimmung 1941 and the rare commemorative Nazi medal we offer here was produced for the event. It has RZM number M9/238 on the back for the firm Schneider of Wien (Vienna, the second largest city of Adolf Hitler's Greater Germany).
Because this 1941 plebiscite involved so few people this heavy, well-made medal is very rare. We have been unable to find out who these medals were given to, but since the ethnic problems in the Balkans are still not solved, it is of historical significance.
NAZI MEDALLION FOR THE 1941 PLEBISCITE IN GAU KÄRNTEN
A HEAVY TWO-INCH NAZI
MEDALLION ISSUED TO
COMMEMORATE THE
1941 PLEBISCITE IN
GAU KÄRNTEN
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