German NSDAP M1927 Political Leader Visor Cap Eagle Pin-Back Badge Assmann & Sohne

Die stamped fire gilt Tomabc, 35mm wing tip to wing tip, high polish on the wing edges; marked RZM 17 on the wing joints for F. W. Assmann & Sohne; in very good condition. Four Tombac flat wire prongs in great condition. Overall an excellent example of a hard to find badge.

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei  or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers’ Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920. The Nazi Party emerged from the extremist German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against communist uprisings in post–World War I Germany. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti–big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric; it was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders. By the 1930s, the party’s main focus shifted to antisemitic and anti-Marxist themes. The party had little popular support until the Great Depression, when worsening living standards and widespread unemployment drove Germans into political extremism.