DLV Sport Shirt Emblem

Product Description: This is a rare and early DLV Sport Shirt Emblem, as worn by members of the Deutscher Luftsportverband, a Nazi organization that trained military pilots. It’s Bevo, machine woven construction. The front of this sports patch features the winged swastika logo of the DLV, neatly executed in red, gray and black thread, on a thin, white, fabric backing. The reverse of this DLV Sport Shirt Emblem shows details of the machine weaving construction process. This is an unissued patch, never sewn to a shirt, and is complete with all of its original backing fabric, just as it would have been when cut from a factory roll. At one edge of the backing, the woven wording “Ges. Gesch.” is present, indicating a legally protected design. This patch is in excellent condition, with no stains or holes, and even age toning to the white fabric. The DLV was dissolved in 1937, which limited the production span for these patches; this is not a common one to find.

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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