Description
National-Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Nordschleswigs (N.S.A.N.) Memberbadge.
Stickpin badge. Yellow enamel with blue swastika and red border, in which the letters N.S.A.N. are running around the border. In worn condition with a bit wear and tear. Inthis instance the condition is of not too much concern as no other badge was known yet!!! Yes, it is THAT rare!
Extremely rare and possibly the rarest collaborationist memberbadge i have ever encountered in my life! The N.S.A.N. was only a very small party in the Noth of Germany, consisting of a small Volksdeutsche membership group. The badge has to my knowledge never before been shown on the internet or in any books and the sparce descriptions of it’s existence only tell that there was supposed to be a seperate N.S.A.N. memberbadge that resembled the black North Schleswig memberbadges. This information is as can be seen by the badge for sale here not correct, as the N.S.A.N. actually used a yellow centred badge with red border and blue swastika.
You want rare? Then this is your chance to get the possibly rarest collaboration badge there is!
A little background:
Denmark’s most southern provence, Schleswig-Holstein, had been lost to Germany after the war of 1864, but following the First World War the League of Nations organized a plebiscite to determine whether its citizens wished to be Germans or Danes. The result was a compromise: North Schleswig voted three to one to become part of Denmark, while South Schleswig voted four to one to remain German. This meant that there was a small German minority in North Schleswig (or, as the Danes called it, South lutland). With the rise of Hitler, the Volksdeutsche of North Schleswig embraced the Nazi faith eagerly, so eagerly in fact that by the mid-1930’s there were no fewer than four rival Nazi parties in that region. Between 1933 and 1935 a bitter struggle was fought out as to which party had the best claim to the title. It was finally won by Jens Miller, a veterinary surgeon from Stenderup who, in August 1935, succeeded in drawing them together to form the N.S.D.A.P.-N. (National-Soziafistische Deutsche Arbeiter Parter Nordschfeswigs – the National-
Socialist German Workers’ Party of North Schleswig). The unity did not, however, last; a rival “Nazi Party”, the N.S.A.N. (National-Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Nordschleswigs) under Jep Nissen, was set up and this split in the Volksdeutsche ranks continued until the time of the occupation.. There was absolutely no cooperation between these two Volksdeutsche Nzi parties or between either of them and the Danish DNSAP.
I played a bit with the light when taking photo’s, resulting is a few overexposed light pictures to show better detailing.
