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Here is your chance to pick up a wonderful NSRKB veteran’s league officer armband covered in other veteran related association pins. Included is a gold honor badge which is correctly mounted to the armband, and 8 other veteran related badges. The most interesting feature of this armband is the Tordpedokammeradschaft 1924 enamel badge; surely this individual was essential to the previous war effort. The armband has a machine-produced bevo insignia sewn onto a black wool backing with a silver bullion stripe of tresse. Would make a nice addition to any collection and this one surely tells an important story! The Kyffhäuserbund was established in 1900 that would unite the formerly scattered German war veterans’ associations. Some of these organizations had been already administrating the maintenance of the memorial together. The league was initially named Kyffhäuser League of the German Countries’ Warriors Associations, a name that became later abbreviated to Kyffhäuserbund. By 1913, this umbrella organization had already 2.8 million war veterans as its members and it had become one of the largest societies in Germany. During the time of the German Empire, the Kyffhäuserbund was instrumentalized against the growing social democratic movement in Germany.The difficult circumstances of World War I’s postwar years led to a significant shrinking of the veterans’ associations and their role. During the Weimar Republic in 1921, the Kyffhäuserbund shed its federal structure and centralized itself under a common leadership. Following this step, it changed its name to German Warriors Association Kyffhäuser. The Kyffhäuserbund was nazified after the Nazi takeover of power in 1933. Five years later, its name was altered to Nationalsocialist Reich Warriors Association (NS-Reichskriegerbund), becoming the sole and exclusive organization representing the veterans’ interests in the Third Reich. Free shipping ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD & I don’t charge PayPal fees like some of the other guys!
