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Product Description: This 19mm NSDAP Party Pin is a rare and desirable early piece. This smaller style of pin pre-dates the institution of RZM controls in 1935. It’s very high quality, as one would expect, with beautiful, jewelry quality enamel. The pebbled field surrounding the lettering is visible through the translucent red enamel. The surface of the brass alloy on the obverse retains some of the original silver finish. The enamel remains nice, with a small chip to the center of the black swastika emblem. The reverse of this hard to find 19mm NSDAP Party Pin retains original finish as well as the original attachment pin assembly, held in place with a soldered pin plate. As expected, there is no RZM emblem; it is simply marked “ges. gesch.” indicating a legally protected design. It would be hard to find a nicer example of an early small Party membership badge. The condition rates as excellent.
Historical Description: Adolf Hitler was an army veteran in 1919. Frustrated by Germany’s defeat in World War I, he joined a new political organization called the German Workers’ Party. The organization was founded earlier that same year and promoted German nationalism. Members of this organization felt that the Treaty of Versailles was extremely unjust to Germany, by burdening it with reparations it could never pay. Hitler became the leader of this party in 1921 and changed the name to The National Socialist German Workers’ Party; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP). In 1933, Hitler became chancellor of Germany and his Nazi government soon assumed dictatorial powers. After Germany’s defeat in World War II the Nazi party was outlawed.
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