Original German WWII Medal and Tinnie Pin Lot Featuring Infantry Assault Badge & Women’s Org. Badge – 24 Items Original Items

Original Items: Only One Set Available. This is a very nice collection of German WWII Insignia, Tinnies, and Awards, which was brought back from the European theater by a USGI after the war was concluded. Many solders traded these on the way back, and would end up with a pocket full of various different collectible items, and this set represents the typical “haul” one might have come back with.

It includes a wide variety of items, including:
– One German WWII Infantry Assault Badge (missing pinback), marked S. H. u. Co. / 41, for 1941 manufacture by Sohni Heubach & Co. of Oberstein, Germany, a known maker of these badges.
– One German WWII Era 1st Pattern Frauenschaft Women’s Organization Badge with a broken pinback, marked on the back with 92 (RZM), most likely for Karl Wild of Hamburg.
– Twenty-two “Tinnies” or even pins from all over Germany.

This set is FULL of research potential, and is just great. Ready to display!

“Tinnies” (Veranstaltungsabzeichen – Event Badge) are small commemorative pins or medals, acquired when one attended a specific event held in Germany. They were often made of thin stamped metal, bakelite, or even pressed paper. Many of these were given out as part of the WHW (Winterhilfswerk – Winter Help Work) Organization, which often involved Germans traveling quite a bit to help out the war effort.

The Infantry Assault Badge (Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen) was a German war badge awarded to Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht Heer soldiers during the Second World War. This decoration was instituted on 20 December 1939 by the Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch. It could be awarded to members of non-motorized Infantry units and units of the Gebirgsjäger that had participated in infantry assaults, with light infantry weapons, on at least three separate days of battle in the front line on or after 1 January 1940. When a counter offensive led to fighting, it could also apply. Award of the Infantry Assault Badge was authorized at regimental command level.

More on the NS-Frauenschaft Women’s League

The National Socialist Women’s League (German: Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft, abbreviated NS-Frauenschaft) was the women’s wing of the NSDAP Party. It was founded in October 1931 as a fusion of several nationalist and NSDAP women’s associations, such as the German Women’s Order (German: Deutscher Frauenorden, DFO) which had been founded in 1926. From then on, women were subordinate to the NSDAP Reich leadership. Guida Diehl was its first speaker (Kulturreferentin).

The Frauenschaft was subordinated to the national party leadership (Reichsleitung); girls and young women were the purview of the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM). From February 1934 to the end of World War II in 1945, the NS-Frauenschaft was led by Reich’s Women’s Leader (Reichsfrauenführerin) Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902–1999). It put out a biweekly magazine, the NS-Frauen-Warte.

Its activities included instruction in the use of German-manufactured products, such as butter and rayon, in place of imported ones, as part of the self-sufficiency program, and classes for brides and schoolgirls. During wartime, it also provided refreshments at train stations, collected scrap metal and other materials, ran cookery and other classes, and allocated the domestic servants conscripted in the east to large families. Propaganda organizations depended on it as the primary spreader of propaganda to women.