”Front Heil” Veteran’s Organization Buckle

A third reich period NSV (National Socialist People’s Welfare/Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt) “Für Mutter und Kind” pin; metal backer; 30 mm long pin; maker marked “Paulmann & Crone, Lüdenscheid” on the reverse; measuring 21 mm in diameter; very fine condition.

An issue of the official journal of the Waffen-SS in France, called “Devenir” (Becoming). 8 pages, It measures 295x450mm, fair condition with serious fraying around left and right.

It is the first issue of the first year, published in February 1944. Only five issues in total are confirmed to exist.

The journal was a propaganda piece, used in an effort to recruit non-Germans into the SS. An article in this issue talk about the training camp in Sennheim, where foreign men were trained to become SS members.
Other articles are about a united Europe fighting against Bolshevism, about French men in the SS, an article calling Danish Youth to serve on the Eastern Front, an interview with the mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands, about rebuilding his city, and one about the common Nordic/Viking heritage of the central and northern European countries.

Articles in this issue were written, amongst others, by Joseph Darnand and Franz Riedweg.

Footnote:
Joseph Darnand (1897–1945) was a French collaborator, SS-Sturmbannführer, and head of the Milice française, a paramilitary organisation created by the Vichy regime with the help of Nazi Germany to fight the French resistance.

Franz Riedweg (1907–2005) from Switzerland was an SS-Obersturmbannführer and Chief of the Germanischen Leitstelle (German Central Office) of the SS-Hauptamt (Main Administration).

12th German Singers' League 1937 Festival at Breslau Flag Weight - Blackened iron, obverse illustrating a standing man in the Greek-style, his body posed frontwards, with his head turned to the right, his right foot raised and resting upon a rock, his right hand firmly grasping a lyre and supporting it with his arm, reverse with the Deutsches Sängerbund in the centre flanked by the dates "1862" and "1937", swastikas at the bottom and bottom, inscribed "12.DEUTSCHES SÄNGERBUNDESFEST UND FEIER DES 75 JÄHRIGEN" above and "BESTEHENS DES DEUTSCHEN SÄNGERBUNDES BRESLAU 28-7-1-8" below, 93 mm, integral ring suspension, spots of surface rust on the reverse, extremely fine.

Footnote: The 12th German Singers' League (Deutsches Sängerbund) Festival at Breslau commemorated the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the organization in 1862. It was held from July 28 to August 1, 1937, with over 100,000 singers participating. It was the last and at the same time the most powerful rally of the Silesian Sängerbund under President Emil Fuchs (1883-1972), before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

Turkey (Ottoman Empire): Type II; Multi-piece construction, Type II with green enamels, silver gilt with a red and green enamelled insignia, mounted to an seven-pointed star base, Arabic inscription in Gold on the centrepiece, 61.7 mm x 81.5 mm inclusive of its crescent moon and star suspension, green enamel loss on the tip of the star point at 12 o'clock, slight chipping on the star point immediately to the right, traces of gilt remains, better than very fine. (C:172)