Germany. A 1938 Drl Breslau Gymnastics And Sports Festival Badge Auction In the Summer of 1941

In the Summer of 1941 it was committed to Operation Barbarossa and was used to support Army Group North in its drive through the Baltic States towards Leningrad and was also employed against Russian shipping

stationed northwest of Lake Peipus

hampered by the terrain

Machine embroidered in grey and golden threads on black wool backing

outer edge trimmed in aluminum bullion wire

Germany. A 1938 Drl Breslau Gymnastics And Sports Festival Badge Auction In the Summer of 1941A 1938 DRL (National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund fr Leibesbungen) Deutsches Turn und Sportfest in Breslau badge; in copper washed and silvered aluminum; horizontal pinback; maker marked with the stylized logo of Hermann Aurich, Ldenscheid on the reverse; measuring 41 mm in diameter; in overall better than very fine condition.