Medal "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42" (East Medal), awarded to soldiers who took part in the winter campaign on the Eastern Front during World War II.
The medal was designed by SS-Unterscharführer Ernst Krause and has a diameter of 3.6 cm, usually made of zinc.
The obverse depicts a German eagle holding a swastika, with a laurel wreath behind it.
The ribbon has a central white-black-white stripe (white for snow, black for the fallen soldiers) with red edges (for blood).
More than three million of these medals have been awarded.
East medal
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