Germany, Third Reich. A National Socialist German Navy League Member’s Breast Eagle United Republic of 65th Infantry Battalion Collar Badge:

65th Infantry Battalion Collar Badge: in browning copper

Measuring 333 mm (w) x 301 mm (h)

Queen Marie Cross

bearing the Prague Castle bar

This was because many of the Merchant seamen were taken as prisoners of war

Germany, Third Reich. A National Socialist German Navy League Member’s Breast Eagle United Republic of 65th Infantry Battalion Collar Badge:(National Sozialistische Deutscher Marine Bund Brustadler). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, the obverse consisting of a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, above a pair of crossed sword and overlaid by an anchor bearing a central black enameled Iron Cross, the reverse with a crimped hinge and horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 95 mm (w) x 52 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.