Kriegsmarine Sport Shirt Eagle

Product Description: This Kriegsmarine Sport Shirt Eagle is an impressive-looking piece of insignia. It’s Bevo, machine woven construction, as all of these were. It features a large, striking-looking rendition of a German eagle and swastika emblem, in blue thread (for use by the German Navy), on a white backing. All of the original thin rayon backing fabric is present. This is an unissued piece, that has never been folded in preparation for being sewn to a Kriegsmarine sports shirt. There are no stitch holes or other signs of use. The reverse of this eye-catching patch shows the emblem in reverse, a result of the machine weaving process. This piece shows a light patina throughout, with a couple of tiny spots and normal age toning to the white fibers. The condition of this Kriegsmarine Sport Shirt Eagle rates as very good plus. This was the largest pattern of Kriegsmarine Bevo eagle.

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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