NAZI GERMAN NSRL/DRL BRONZE SPORTS BADGE IN CLOTH

BACKGROUND: An award badge for the NSRL, "Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen" (National-socialist State-league for Physical-fitness), which was incorporated into the DRL, "Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen" (German State-league for Physical-fitness), without changing their award insignia, in 1938.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: This cloth version of the award, which would have been sewn to an athletic uniform, has, machine woven in bronze-colored threads to its roughly 2 7/8" square, black rayon base, an eagle with down-swept wings and a black, mobile swastika to its breast. The eagle is encircled by a bronze-colored ring, 6 cm across and 6.5 cm lengthwise. Awarded for excellence in a single sport. Looks to have been possibly removed from a garment, slight fraying along the top and bottom edges..