Need help with an ID

[Paul Massucci]

Tinnies aren't my thing, although the more I read the postings here they are becoming more and more interesting. Anyway the item below I've had for several years and has always been an item I was curious about especially with the swastika being "reversed", it was part of a lot I picked up and I recently came across it again. It's plastic of some sort and measures roughly 30mm. square. Any info anyone can share about will be very much appreciated, particularly the markings on the reverse although I do know what the D.R.D.M. ( below the hinge) stands for.
The other markings are on thge upper arm:

KLETHEN KREIS STADE

lower arm:

LANGOBARDISCH
UM 500

Thanks

[Paul Massucci]

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[James Noble]

This is one of a set of ten pins sold by WHW in 1941 it shows how the Hakenkreuz-Symbol was used by Germanic tribes in ancient times here are three others from the set.

[Paul Massucci]

Thanks James

[Patrick W]

Also the Langobarden are an ancient Germanic tribe. Can't tell you anything
about them unfortunately!


Patrick

[Paul Massucci]

Thanks for all the answers.

[Frank Heukemes]

Also, KLETHEN KREIS STADE is not a maker mark, it is where this artifact was found by archelologists. Klethen is the city, Stade the greater area (also a city). The "um 500" after Langobardisch means the artifact dates back to the year 500.

[Frank Heukemes]

Here is what these guys looked like:

[Frank Heukemes]

and this is where they lived:

[John Bart]

and this is where they lived:

Frank H,
Thanks for the fascinating background on this item.
... John

[ben baars]

Frank H,
Thanks for the fascinating background on this item.
... John

An other "Germanic"tradition the germans did(1930-40's perhaps earlier too) ; Das Sonnewende-fest ( interperiod- the sun is coming back ); they made a weel of straw( ca 1.50m diameter) Put it on fire and pushed it from the hill. In the evening very impressive to see; very archaïc. In Nazi-German called
"Das Juhlfest" Free translated a feast of joy !!
Ben Baars

[John Doe]

Those plastic pins were sold to obtain funds for the nazi benefaction campaign organized by the SS-gruppenführer Erich Hilgenfeldt. They reproduce objects founds in archeological excavations realised in Germany, Rome and Greece, and instruct the use and the evolution of the swastika in the antiquity...

These text is translated (not exactly) from Robin Lumsden book Himmler´s Black Order

[If there´s any translation error please advise me ]

Hope Robin doesn´t mind for quoting this text, if there´s any problem i´ll remove it.

Regards, Javier