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Product Description: This early 17mm NSDAP Party Pin is an extremely rare, very small example of this desirable membership badge. This is very early production, made prior to the institution of RZM controls. This appealing and seldom offered variant has great color to the original enamel, which is intact, with some very small chips to the black swastika emblem. It appears to have been worn, with the original silvering worn off the metalwork on the front, exposing the golden color of the Tombak base metal. The reverse of this 17mm NSDAP Party Pin retains original silver finish, as well as the original attachment pin, which is held in place with a neatly soldered pin plate. The pin plate is marked twice with “ges. gesch.” indicating a legally protected design. As is expected on a piece from this era, there is no RZM emblem, and there is no maker mark. This is a nice and complete badge with great eye appeal and no repairs. 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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