K-258
GERMANIA DISMISSES WILHELM II
(Germania entlässt Wilhelm II)
1918, Cast bronze, Satirical medal, 59.4mm, 54.95g.
Obverse: Wilhelm, as a child, receives his report card from Germania. Inscription in border, "Entlassen • wegen • Unfähigkeit" (Dismissed because of incompetence). K-G in exergue.
Reverse: Wilhelm lies on a high wall; Clemenceau stands at the base of a wall titled "Amerongen" and calling to him, "Wilhelm sollst mal runterkommen" (Wilhelm, you are to come down), with the intention to extradite him from his domicile in Holland for trial.
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Goetz based this medal on the request of the Entente to have the Emperor extradited from Holland for a trial. The request was never granted.
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