Germany, Third Reich. A 1938 Kyffhäuser League Combat Games Victor’s Sleeve Badge GTRexclude The President of the Congo

The President of the Congo is the Grand Chancellor of the Order

They returned to the theatre of operations in May

This is a Christmas gift from the Grand Duchess Eleonore zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich and her husband Ernst Ludwig von Hessen to the troops in Hessen

bronze-gilt

made with tiny beads or twisted threads

Germany, Third Reich. A 1938 Kyffhäuser League Combat Games Victor’s Sleeve Badge GTRexclude The President of the Congo(Kyffhuserbund Wettkampfsieger rmelabzeichen). Constructed of bronze, affixed to a black wool backer, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a 1914 Iron Cross and flanked by mobile swastikas, with a central Kyffhuser Monument above an inscription of WETTKAMPFSIEGER (COMBAT GAMES WINNER) and a target overlaid by crossed rifles and a date of 1938, unmarked, measuring 58 mm (w) x 68 mm (h) (inclusive of