GERMAN NAZI "FANTASY" BADGES

The badges shown here have been produced probably in Poland sometime between 1990 and 1996. They are so absurd that one wonders why anybody would want to spend time and money on manufacturing such garbage; nevertheless, they are real and they show up at militaria shows and auctions all over North America.


These insignias share the following conspicuous features:


  • They are usually completely fantastic, i.e., they don't copy any known IIIrd Reich badges;
  • They utilize a lot of sloppily laid enamel, unlike the majority of the genuine German military insignias which, for practical reasons, were metal-only.
  • They are almost always screwbacks (the originals are mostly pinbacks), with unnecessarily long screw posts and steel discs;
  • The discs usually (but not necessarily) have two "bumps" on the obverse and can be either plain, or bear the weirdest possible inscriptions and "serial numbers";
  • The badges' reverses are frequently marked with the abbreviation GES.GESCH. without any further qualification; this stamp is sometimes mirror-reversed!

    The two badges illustrated to the left are completely fantastic; their discs are inscribed WEHRMACHT 1941 or BERLIN with a serial number on the obverse, they often have letter symbols and numbers on the reverse. Note the very clumsy design of the eagle.

Top: A crude travesty (with enamel!) of the so-called Condor Legion Cross; the disc is marked, of course, CONDOR LEGION.


Bottom left: A fantastic "Luftwaffe badge", the disc marked LUFTWAFFE.


Bottom right: More of the same, the inscription (in bad German) rougly means "The property of the flying corps"(!!!), the disc also marked LUFTWAFFE.

Top: A very large (2" diameter) badge of unknown purpose; the inscription reads "Germany is awaken" instead of the correct "Germany awake!"; the disc is of typical Polish production.


Bottom: An "SS badge": a moronic combination of Nazi emblems and mottoes, the disc marked BERLIN with a serial number.
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