Original German WWII NSDAP Cast Metal Insignia on White Marble Base

Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very interesting WWII German National Socialist Party wreathed swas (hook cross) insignia measuring 2 3/4" in diameter, with an overall height of 3 1/2", which has been mounted to a very nice white marble base. The design has a pedestal under the swas with a large oak leaf on it, and looks to be bronze paint finished non magnetic zinc alloy. The marble base measures 5" x 3" x 7/8" including padding on bottom, and the piece is about 4 1/2" in overall height. It is in very good shape, and would make a nice addition to any German WWII collection.

NSDAP Party

The NSDAP, 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 N**ism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920. The Party emerged from the extremist German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post–World War I Germany. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. Initially, N**i political strategy focused on anti–big business, anti‑bourgeois, and anti‑capitalist rhetoric. This was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders, and in the 1930s the party's main focus shifted to antisemitic and anti‑Marxist themes.

Ad**f Hi**er, the party's leader since 1921, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933. Hitl** rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich. Following the defeat of the Third Reich at the end of World War II in Europe, the party was "declared to be illegal" by the Allied powers, who carried out denazification in the years after the war both in Germany and in territories occupied by NSDAP forces. The use of any symbols associated with the party is now outlawed in many European countries, including Germany and Austria.