Heer Sports Shirt Eagle

Product Description: This Heer Sports Shirt Eagle is a sound, unissued, original piece, with an impressive look. This large cloth eagle was worn on the chest of the sleeveless shirt that was issued as part of the sports clothing worn by German Army soldiers. It is typical Bevo machine woven construction, with a bold-looking German Army eagle and swastika emblem in black thread on a shield-shaped woven white background. The backing material is a thin white rayon fabric. This patch has never been folded to be sewn on a uniform. The reverse of this patch shows the graphic in reverse, which is how these were made. The white fibers on this Heer sports shirt eagle show slight age toning as well as a couple of small stains here and there, mostly on the backing fabric. There are no tears or rips. It displays nicely, and is in excellent condition.

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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