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Product Description: This cloth DLRG badge is a colorful, eye-catching patch. This was intended for wear by members of the Deutsche Lebens-Rettung-Gesellschaft (German Life Saving Organization), an organization originally formed in 1913 and dedicated to teaching swimming, water rescue and self-rescue. This Bevo style machine woven badge is made of rayon, with the initials “DLRG” in green. A black eagle is perched atop a green mountain, overlooking blue water. The design of the patch is oval, and it is on a rectangular backing of thin white rayon fabric. This patch is unissued, and shows no sign of ever having been affixed to anything or even folded. The reverse shows expected details of the machine woven construction. This cloth DLRG badge does show some age, with slight age toning and some very minor staining in some small areas. It is complete, with no holes or damage, and the fabric remains crisp. The condition rates as near mint.
Historical Description: Physical fitness and competition were two concepts that were highly valued in the ideology of the Third Reich. All kinds of sports clubs and organizations flourished in the years before WWII, with larger Reich level organizations supervising athletics, promoting events and issuing awards for sport achievement. The various Nazi era civil, political, military and paramilitary organizations also promoted or even mandated exercise and sports for their members. To facilitate this, these organizations instituted sport uniforms, which typically included sport shoes, and for warm weather, shorts and a knit tank top with a woven emblem specific to that organization. In cold weather, the sport uniform generally included dark colored knit trousers and a sweatshirt, usually also with the sports-specific organizational emblem. The woven organizational emblem patch used on the sports patch was often a rather large patch, making these appealing souvenirs for Allied troops as they swept into Germany. Some types of the sports patches are very common today, though intact sports clothing is rarer, and some sports emblems for smaller organizations, made in limited numbers, are very rare.
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