Propaganda copy of Karl Goetz’s ‘Lusitania Medallion’
August 30, 2016
This object is one of 300,000 copies of Karl Goetz’s ‘Lusitania Medallion’ cast and distributed in England as part of an anti-German propaganda campaign following the sinking of the Cunard liner RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915. Original medallions made in Germany are very scarce. There is one on display in the…