NSDAP Party Membership Pin – RZM M1/25

Product Description:   NSDAP Party Membership Pin – RZM M1/25, a textbook original example dating to the 1930s and produced in tombak or a similar brass alloy. The pin retains its original form and proportions, with the silvered finish to the exposed metalwork on both obverse and reverse largely worn away, revealing the base metal beneath with an even and characteristic age patina. The obverse enamel is exceptionally well preserved, showing no chips or cracks and only minimal signs of handling. The translucent red enamel clearly reveals the pebbled ground surrounding the lettering, a hallmark of quality period manufacture.

The reverse features a soldered pin plate with a complete and fully functional pin assembly. It is marked with the circular RZM logo of the Reichszeugmeisterei and the maker code M1/25, identifying manufacture by Rudolf Reiling of Pforzheim. The pin is accompanied by strong provenance, having been brought back together with a flag and an additional party pin by a member of the 30th Infantry Division, 117th Infantry Regiment, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While accompanying photographs illustrate related bring-back items, only the pin is included in the present lot. An attractive and well-preserved NSDAP Party Membership Pin – RZM M1/25, offered in excellent overall condition.

Historical Description: Adolf Hitler was an army veteran in 1919. Frustrated by Germany’s defeat in World War I, he joined a new political organization called the German Workers’ Party. The organization was founded earlier that same year and promoted German nationalism. Members of this organization felt that the Treaty of Versailles was extremely unjust to Germany, by burdening it with reparations it could never pay. Hitler became the leader of this party in 1921 and changed the name to The National Socialist German Workers’ Party; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP). In 1933, Hitler became chancellor of Germany and his Nazi government soon assumed dictatorial powers. After Germany’s defeat in World War II the Nazi party was outlawed.

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