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Well, the search is now for a photostudio that still does these old films! Turns out, laws sometimes prevents use of chemicals you need to develop filmroll like this? And it takes 3 kinds of equipment, not used much anymore, too Already learned, the Agfa Isopan F film, is a black and white film, see a 1943 package-box here. Its finegrain film, ISO 40, the film sensitivity-speed. The higher the ISO the more sensitive the film is, and the less exposuretime you need. 100 is pretty standard today, and no less then ISO 64 is for sale anymore? 200 is 2 times more sensitive then 100, and would need half as much light to make a picture. Black and white film, captures light not colours, so, filmgrains turn black if exposed to light. The darker the grainparticle, the more light it took, and ofcourse each colour has its own amount of light reflected when put to Black/White. The finer the grain of the film, the more particles grabbing light and the more detailed the blackened grains paint the negative-picture. See here for more if you want.

So, developing the film surely ain't solved yet. Meanwhile, here's another Abzeichen that shows again it doesn't take a lot to make it look a million, this metal Gauwandertreffen Kauserslautern, 15. August 1937 pin, German "wandern" means "to hike" or "to walk", I think the first is better here. Lovely pin, very nice details, looks stunning, also never saw it before, but its in Ti�ste. The 15th august, 2 days before that, Japan attacked Shanghai. Kaiserslautern has much NSDAP activities, at least when you look at how many Kaiserslautern Tagungsabzeichen exist! Kaiserslautern also has the local city-district directory of all directories in community archives to mention the most things the NSDAP did to "make the city better" during 3rd Reich period, like renaming streets and squares, build new things, put buildings to purpose, change rules and laws, and all the honorable NSDAP-citizens and the National Socialist achievements of them that lived there. Read here if you want to know more.

The city-district always had much sports and community, and by 1938, all of the clubs and organisations were KdF-clubs ofcourse. The club most famous, is the soccerclub FC Kaiserslautern. You guys may like soccer, theres some vids here, also about the club and a famous player during WWII. Specificly for Kraft durch Freude, I found no infos yet anywhere for Kaiserslautern, but the pin is surely nice enough to show.

Enjoy,
KR