Original German WWII Seven Kriegsmarine Navy BeVo Embroidered Breast Eagles - Uncut from Factory Roll

Original Items: Only One Set Available. The term "BeVo" originates from the company Bandfabrik Ewald Vorsteher, a manufacture of ribbon and lace located in Wuppertal-Barmen. The company began to use the abbreviation BEVO in the 1930s, which would often be marked on their products. There is some confusion over the company, with some claims that it was several companies merged, however these all had separate RZM designations, so they were not combined companies. BeVo was well known for their high-quality, flat-woven, machine embroidered insignia, and secured many government contracts. This term then began to be used to refer to any insignia made in a similar manner, even if not by the actual company.

The process was highly automated, and resulted in long rolls of insignia, which would then be cut apart into individual pieces and installed on whatever fabric they were intended for. often with the surrounding border folded underneath. Generally when delivered to the factories they would get one long roll, which then would be cut into shorter strips before installation.

Here we have two short strips of BeVo style embroidered Kriegsmarine breast eagles, featuring gold yellow embroidery on navy blue backgrounds. One strip measures 19 1/4" long with 4 eagles, and the other 14 3/4" with 3 eagles. Both show wear and staining, and some holes from storage. It looks like exposure to some type of liquid caused areas to become very brittle when dried. The mostly affected the backing, but did cause some holes in one of the eagles.

Some really nice German WWII Insignia with a great used look!

More on the Kriegsmarine
In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, the Kriegsmarine grew rapidly during German naval rearmament in the 1930s. The 1919 treaty had limited the size of the German navy and prohibited the building of submarines

Kriegsmarine ships were deployed to the waters around Spain during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) under the guise of enforcing non-intervention, but in reality supported the Nationalists against the Spanish Republicans.

In January 1939, Plan Z, a massive ship-building program, was ordered, calling for surface naval parity with the British Royal Navy by 1944. When World War II broke out in September 1939, Plan Z was shelved in favour of a crash building program for submarines (U-boats) instead of capital surface warships, and land and air forces were given priority of strategic resources.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine (as for all branches of armed forces during the period of absolute NSDAP power) was AH, who exercised his authority through the Oberkommando der Marine ("High Command of the Navy").

The Kriegsmarine's most significant ships were the U-boats, most of which were constructed after Plan Z was abandoned at the beginning of World War II. Wolfpacks were rapidly assembled groups of submarines which attacked British convoys during the first half of the Battle of the Atlantic but this tactic was largely abandoned by May 1943 when U-boat losses mounted. Along with the U-boats, surface commerce raiders (including auxiliary cruisers) were used to disrupt Allied shipping in the early years of the war, the most famous of these being the heavy cruisers Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer and the battleship Bismarck. However, the adoption of convoy escorts, especially in the Atlantic, greatly reduced the effectiveness of surface commerce raiders against convoys.

Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Kriegsmarine's remaining ships were divided up among the Allied powers and were used for various purposes including minesweeping. Some were loaded with superfluous chemical weapons and scuttled.