Third Reich - Original certificate bestowing the 1st October 1938 medal on Hans Triller, for his part in the campaign to annex the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. Printed document, with typed and ms insertions, oblong A5. Medal is not present. A rare document. The Commemorative medal was awarded to soldiers of the Third Reich who participated in the October 1, 1938, annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia by Germany. Sudetenland being freed from its shackles by Nazi Germany. The Sudetenland was a region of Czechoslovakia on the border with Germany where the majority of the population were ethnic Germans. In 1938, Hitler threatened to go to war unless the territory was ceded to Germany. At a conference in Munich on September 29-30, attended by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, but not the democratic government of Czechoslovakia, the borders of Czechoslovakia were revised and the region was annexed to Germany in return for a pledge of peace from Hitler. It was perhaps the most disgraceful act by Great Britain and France in the immediate run up to WWII, and led to the Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to give his infamous 'peace in our time' speech on returning from the conference. The act of betrayal of a neutral country emboldened Hitler and led directly to the outbreak of war less than a year later