The party badges

The party badge was designed by Hitler himself arguing the very strong, and powerful appearance of the round badge with a red circle, white field and a mobile black swastika. The very first party badge prototype was made by hand by the Munich goldsmith Josef Fuess. In February 1920, he pinned the first badge on, then party leader, Anton Drexler’s lapel. In return he was told by Drexler that he had to fit in the word National-Sozialistische in the badge, since the party had just changed its name. From that point on, a myriad of makers would create badges from early 1920 up until the end of the war in 1945. Varying in size, quality and appearance. Listed below are some select specimens of the pre-RZM era badges, meaning badges that were produced before the Machtübernahme in 1933.