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Product Description: This DLRG Sport Shirt Emblem is an awesome example of a rarely-seen patch, that was actually worn. This pattern of insignia was worn on sports clothing by members of the Deutsche Lebens-Rettung-Gesellschaft (German Life Saving Organization), a voluntary water rescue organization originally founded in 1913. This colorful Bevo woven patch features the Third Reich type DLRG organizaional emblem, with a black eagle standing on a green hill overlooking blue water, and “DLRG” emblazoned in green thread. The thin white backing of this DLRG sports shirt emblem was carefully folded back, and this was once neatly hand stitched to a piece of sports clothing. It was only lightly worn, and has only very minor age and usage toning, with no stains or major damage to note. The condition is excellent.
Historical Description: Physical fitness and competition were two concepts that were highly valued in the ideology of the Third Reich. All kinds of sports clubs and organizations flourished in the years before WWII, with larger Reich level organizations supervising athletics, promoting events and issuing awards for sport achievement. The various Nazi era civil, political, military and paramilitary organizations also promoted or even mandated exercise and sports for their members. To facilitate this, these organizations instituted sport uniforms, which typically included sport shoes, and for warm weather, shorts and a knit tank top with a woven emblem specific to that organization. In cold weather, the sport uniform generally included dark colored knit trousers and a sweatshirt, usually also with the sports-specific organizational emblem. The woven organizational emblem patch used on the sports patch was often a rather large patch, making these appealing souvenirs for Allied troops as they swept into Germany. Some types of the sports patches are very common today, though intact sports clothing is rarer, and some sports emblems for smaller organizations, made in limited numbers, are very rare.
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