Hi guys
Here's something very special I recently picked up. A member pin for the German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation. VERY low award nr 13 is engraved in the reverse. 800 silver marked. The design and enamel of this pin are extremely nice, but the history behind this pin is quite shocking.
Here's the text from Wikipedia:
Delegation of the NSDAP (Nazi party) during the German Nationalists protection and Trutzbund organized German Day at Coburg, 1922.
The Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund (English: German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation) was the largest, most active, and most influential anti-Semitic federation in Germany after the first World War, and one of the largest and most important organization of the German völkisch movement during the Weimar Republic, whose democratic-parliamentary system it unilaterally rejected. Its publishing arm put out some of the books that greatly influenced the opinions of those who later organized the Nazi Party, such as Heinrich Himmler,and after it folded many of its members eventually joined the Nazis. The bund's symbols were a blue cornflower and a swastika, and according to Peter Padfield its motto was "Wir sind die Herren der Welt!" ("We are the masters of the world!"). Not a single German source can be found which confirms this motto, which in fact is a verse from the song "Der mächtigste König im Luftrevier" (i.e. The mightiest king in the skies.) According to Ulrich Sieg the motto was Deutschland den Deutschen ("Germany for the Germans").
Giel
Here's something very special I recently picked up. A member pin for the German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation. VERY low award nr 13 is engraved in the reverse. 800 silver marked. The design and enamel of this pin are extremely nice, but the history behind this pin is quite shocking.
Here's the text from Wikipedia:
Delegation of the NSDAP (Nazi party) during the German Nationalists protection and Trutzbund organized German Day at Coburg, 1922.
The Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund (English: German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation) was the largest, most active, and most influential anti-Semitic federation in Germany after the first World War, and one of the largest and most important organization of the German völkisch movement during the Weimar Republic, whose democratic-parliamentary system it unilaterally rejected. Its publishing arm put out some of the books that greatly influenced the opinions of those who later organized the Nazi Party, such as Heinrich Himmler,and after it folded many of its members eventually joined the Nazis. The bund's symbols were a blue cornflower and a swastika, and according to Peter Padfield its motto was "Wir sind die Herren der Welt!" ("We are the masters of the world!"). Not a single German source can be found which confirms this motto, which in fact is a verse from the song "Der mächtigste König im Luftrevier" (i.e. The mightiest king in the skies.) According to Ulrich Sieg the motto was Deutschland den Deutschen ("Germany for the Germans").
Giel
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