Hi Joe, William, Sirs
Thanks for the cheers! And YES, it IS a very nice pin! BUT, lets not forget the Abzeichen NOT of plastik or wood or even without colours can be very nice too. Lets throw something in just to show this, yes?
For change, a metal Abzeichen. Made of sheetmetal. Not colourul, in fact, no colours at all, and a real pain to shoot I'm tellin you! But its so very nicely done. Not all Abzeichen show DAF plus KdF. This tinnie does! Feels like a Mitgliedsabzeichen; totally stunning detail! But to fully apreciate that we need to get very very close, so look at pics 4 and 5, just brilliant dont you think? Shot 4, look at that Eichenlaub'like decoration, so very small but so very detailed and done carefuly! There even are tiny little Eichel'chen right there! Go see, its cute! Shot 5, another little fine detail there, this Laub or leaf, and a close look at the lettering. These letters, very lovely, bit like Jugendstill lettering, no? The NSG KdF, like in the theaterposters and vari�t�programs of the 1920s? Also the Eichenlaub-like decoratings around the edge, make it very luxuriouslooking. Very nice design, bit like a real medal.
NSDAP Gau Franken was formed in 1929 by joining Mittelfranken with district bezirk N�rnberg-F�rth. Leiter until 1940 was Julius Streicher. This Streicher was a bit of a riot, and got booted as Gauleiter so the Gau was left without Leitung till 1944 when Karl Holz took over. Btw, its fun to look a bit into Streicher, he also did the {in!!}famous Herkules Halle speech in N�rnberg in 1932. This speech called "
Kampf dem Weltfeind" and that shows well how radical national socialist and antisemitic he was if you understand the subject was racial-nature. Anyways, see
here if intersted, theres also parts of that speech there. Still Streicher was not the KdF Gauwart! I think that {could} have been Paul D�rr? But I only found 1 mention somewhere in some pdf hidden away and you need a supscription to some library to read more. A KdF Gau magazine often has a preface by the Gauwart, still looking for something like that for Gau Franken.
Anyhow, a real problemcolour this blank metal, to put in a shot, but, here it is!
Enjoy,
KR
