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Vintage Teplice Famous Czech Spa Natural Spring Town Heraldic Crest Pin Badge
Vintage Teplice Famous Czech Spa Natural Spring Town Heraldic Crest Pin Badge
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The badge face is 2cm high and has a long stick pin style fastener to the rear.
The picture displays the official town crest of Teplice and would make a lovely gift for someone with connections to this beautiful place.
- 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.
