A Rare Romanian piece

[Alex Stefanut]

Dear all,

FYI - a nice and not so often seen piece.

Enjoy,

Alex

[Br. James]

Hi Alex,

I agree that this is not a frequently-seen badge, though from the quality of the photo there is really not much to see there. A clearer shot would be most helpful, as well as one of the reverse.

Cheers,

Br. James

[Carsten135]

hey there alex

i agree whit br. james, the quality of the pic matches a day whit a VERY bad hangover.... plz provide us whit a clear pic of both front and reverse so we can enjoy this ( maybee ) historical pice.

cheers

[Matthew]

Now offered for sale here: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=748985

Advertised as Romanian NSDAP Badge. Judging by the letters P.N.C. at the bottom of the pin, it would appear it is in fact a badge of The National Christian Party (Partidul Naţional Crestin). It was one of far right groups operating in Romania during that era but Romanian Socialist Party Badge it is not.
Romanian National Socialist Party (Partidul Național-Socialist) was led by Stefan Tatarescu, not Goga or Cuza as displayed on the pin (Octavian Goga led National Agrarian Party, while A.C. Cuza formed National Christian Defense League- they joined efforts creating National Christian Party in 1935).

With that out of the way- does anyone have any info on the badge itself? Any documented specimens, other examples in collections?
Pictures seem to be a tad improved but still not something that would give me the fuzzies.

Any opinions?

cheers

Matt

[Alex Stefanut]

Hello, and thank you for your feedback.

First of all, I will post soon some better quality fotos of the badge.

Secondly, FYI - excerpts from Foreign Legions of the Third Reich (vol.4) proving IMO that PNC was the Romanian COPY of the German NSDAP, showing the same uniform, insignia, etc, in effect being the Romanian NSDAP.

Thirdly, fyi - a direct link to an AC Cuza history site, with plenty of fotos, artifacts and info (in Romanian unfortunately) about PNC. Even the foto of the member was taken from there.

http://ac-cuza.info/page/7/

Hope this clears things a bit on this very rare piece.

Thank you for your feedback, again,

Alex

[Alex Stefanut]

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[Alex Stefanut]

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[Matthew]

Secondly, FYI - excerpts from Foreign Legions of the Third Reich (vol.4) proving IMO that PNC was the Romanian COPY of the German NSDAP, showing the same uniform, insignia, etc, in effect being the Romanian NSDAP.
Hope this clears things a bit on this very rare piece.

Thanks for showing those pages. I might be mistaken but I think it says that Tatarescu's Movement (NOT Cuza's P.N.C.) was 'modeled with servile exactitude on Hitler's NSDAP'.
You're mixing up two different parties here.
BTW- National Christian Party was modeled after the Iron Guard which in turn was not really modeled after NSDAP either (big emphasis on religion vs. Hitler's aversion and disdain for it and of course difference of fascism vs national socialism).
Personally I do not care if you call this pin a Nazi Party of the Moon Badge but I am curious- If you had Tatarescu's Romanian National Socialist Party Badge- what would you call that one? Romanian NSDAP2 Badge?
And why not advertise is for what it really is? Not like your book didn't tell you that to begin with..