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1962 Teplice City Czech Sudetenland Spa Town Rod of Asclepius Pin Badge
1962 Teplice City Czech Sudetenland Spa Town Rod of Asclepius Pin Badge
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The badge face is 2.2cm high and has a long stick pin style fastener to the rear.
It is a souvenir pin badge from the thermal spring city of Teplice. This is an antique pin badge, made in 1962, to celebrate the 1200th anniversary of the town and is in good condition. - It displays the natural spa and a medical snake winding up it in a similar motif to that of the Rod of Asclepius, hinting at the water's healing properties.
- Teplice played a pivotal role in the build up to WW2, but likely didn't recognise that at the time. In 1895 after the dissolution of the Austro Hungarian empire Teplice was merged with the German speaking town of Schönau in the newly formed Czechoslovkia. The city was made up of 75% German speakers and this disparity was used by Germany as a justification for annexation of the Sudetenland in the leadup to World War 2.
- Then in 1945 the Benes Decree expelled all remaining German's in the region employing the so called 'sausage test' whereby a plate of aromatic sausages was left in the forest to tempt Germanic sympathisers.
