Lusitania medal [realia]. [1915-2000?]

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Lusitania medal [realia]. [1915-2000?]

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Karl Goetz, a German engraver, issued the Lusitania medal with the intention of satirizing the commercialism of the Cunard Line. The original medal was cast with the date '5 Mai 1915' and stirred the belief that the attack was planned as the Lusitania was sunk on May 7th. Goetz later minted another medal with the date corrected appearing as '7 Mai 1915'. The British minted yet another medal with the day 'May 5 1915'. This medal appears to be yet another issue.

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Goetz, Karl, 1875-1950

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Lusitania (Steamship)

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The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland; 1,198 passengers and crew died. The Cunard Line launched Lusitania in 1906. When RMS Lusitania left New York for Britain on May 1, 1915, German submarine warfare was intensifying in the Atlantic. On the afternoon of May 7, a German U-boat torpedoed Lusitania inside the declared war zone. A second, unexplained, internal explosion, probably that of munitions she was carrying, ...