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Vintage Teplice City Czech Sudetenland Spa Town Lazensky Park Tourist Pin Badge
Vintage Teplice City Czech Sudetenland Spa Town Lazensky Park Tourist Pin Badge
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The badge face is 1.6cm high and has a long, stick pin style fastener to the rear.
The picture depicts the monument in Lazensky park.
It is a souvenir pin badge from the thermal spring city of Teplice. This is an antique pin badge, made in the 1960s and in good condition. - It displays a monument in the spa park
- 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 'sausage test' whereby a plate of aromatic sausages was left in the forest to tempt Germanic sympathisers.
