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Description: | The Lusitania Medal Karl Goetz made the medal as propaganda, but unfortunately he put the wrong date of sinking on the medal, an error he later attributed to an error in the newspaper account he had read. By mistake, instead of the correct date of May 7, Karl put on his medal the date of May 5, a full two days before the actual sinking. Without realizing his error Karl began to make copies of the satirical medal and to sell them on the streets of Munich and to the select numismatic dealers The British Copy The British quickly recognized and seized the propaganda windfall Goetz' medal provided. They raced to produce their own copies of Goetz' medal and accompanied it with a propaganda pamphlet which strongly and slantedly denounced the Germans, and accused them of premeditated wholesale murder. The British copies are of a poorer quality and were produced in iron by die casting. The British copies can be distinguished by their poor looks alone, and also by their anglicized spelling of the German "Mai as "May, though not all of them are so made.
Medal, British copy of the Karl Goetz medal made to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7th 1915 | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | Sandwell Museums | Subjects: | Medals | Temporal: | 1915
World War I (1914-1918) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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