Germany - Third Reich: SA Sports Badge, Bronze grade, unnumbered post 1937 issue, maker marked Berg & Nolte A.G. Ludenscheid to the reverse.
Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine
The SA Sports Badge was a political version of the much more generic German Sports Badge which was also issued in great numbers by the Nazis. Although originally designed as a physical fitness badge for Nazi stormtroopers, the SA Sports Badge was issued across every German military and paramilitary organization. Indeed, the SS held the SA Sports Badge in high regard, and many of its senior members, Heinrich Himmler, Karl Wolff, and Arthur Nebe among them, qualified for the decoration. The badge was also commonly issued to the Wehrmacht and was one of the few political decorations that the armed forces allowed to freely be displayed on a military uniform.
