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Sportfest Breslau 1938 - Honorable Service Badge

Sportfest Breslau 1938 - Honorable Service Badge

LOT US1-040
SOLD
Auction ended        1st May 2022  |  02:26 pm CEST
RESULT
$ 125,00
EXCL. BUYER’S PREMIUM: 22,50 %
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PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany 1918 - 1945
MATERIAL
DIMENSIONS 41.1 mm
MAKER
WEIGHT 7.9 g
US LOT US1-040
EAN 3000000000939
US LOT US1-040
PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany 1918 - 1945
EAN 3000000000939
MATERIAL
DIMENSIONS 41.1 mm
MAKER
WEIGHT 7.9 g
PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany 1918 - 1945
US LOT US1-040
MATERIAL
DIMENSIONS 41.1 mm
EAN 3000000000939
MAKER
WEIGHT 7.9 g
Germany 1918 - 1945


Description

Badge for honorable service at the games by Rob. Neff. Berlin W 35. Red ribbon with the word: “Ehrendienst” attached by prongs.

The Deutsches Turn- und Sportfest (German Gym and Sports Celebration) was the last big sports event organized by the Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen. It took place in Breslau (now Wroclaw) the most important city of Silesia, now in Poland. The venue was staged in July 1938 at the city's Hermann Göring Stadium, later renamed "Stadion Olimpijski", following the trademark grandiose style of the Nazi Sports Body.

This highly nationalistic sports event was officially commemorating the 125th anniversary of the historical German Wars of Liberation against Napoleon and the first award of the Iron Cross in the city of Breslau itself in 1813. It was staged as a grand patriotic, expansionist occasion, illustrating the clamor for a Greater Germany to the public. This event gathered German athletes brought from many different parts of the world, like Argentina, South West Africa, Italy, the US and South Africa. It also became a gathering of representatives of German ethnic minorities, mainly from Eastern Europe (Siebenbürgen, Banat) who staged processions dressed in their colorful folkloric costumes, a display of the Nazi Drang nach Osten policies.

Not only sports competitions and athletes' parades took place, but also numerous military, civil, and folklorical-costume processions in the mains streets of the city of Breslau.


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Seller
History Trader Inc., 521 Thorn Street #165, Sewickly, PA 15143-0165, USA