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Here is your chance to pick up a Reichsnährstand funeral sash roundel. This emblem would have been in place of the typical swastika roundel on a funeral sash for a Reichsnährstand member. Minor glue remains on the reverse likely from a veteran scrapbook. This is a nice example in my opinion that really has a lot of character. The Reichsnährstand was a government body set up in Nazi Germany to regulate food production. The Reichsnährstand had legal authority over everyone involved in agricultural production and distribution. It attempted to interfere in the market for agricultural goods, using a complex system of orders, price controls, and prohibitions, through regional marketing associations. Under the “Hereditary Farm Law of 1933” (Reichsnährstandsgesetz), farmers were bound to their land since most agricultural land could not be sold. The law was enacted to protect and preserve Germany’s smaller hereditary estates that were no larger than 308 acres. Below that acreage, farmlands could “not be sold, divided, mortgaged or foreclosed on for debt.” The Reichsnährstand’s argument that Germany “needed” an additional 7-8 million hectares of farmland, and that consolidation of existing farms would displace many existing farmers who would need to work new land, influenced Hitler’s decision to invade the Soviet Union. Free shipping ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD & I don’t charge PayPal fees like some of the other guys!
