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Distributed through the national WHW fund drive of Sept 7-28 1941

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The round dots look like the ceramic heating tiles you sometimes saw on very old stoves.

  • 5 months later...
Jack the Collector
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I have always found it interesting that this WHW pin is a reverse swastika.

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Don't forget the swastika started its life not as a symbol of the Third Reich but a symbol of good luck throughout many cultures and countries including our own out of the Midwest with native Americans

Jack the Collector
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including our own out of the Midwest with native Americans

I am,the maternal side of my family is Navajo.

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Don't forget the swastika started its life not as a symbol of the Third Reich but a symbol of good luck throughout many cultures and countries including our own out of the Midwest with native Americans

 

The HK was also seen as a symbol of good fortune by the National Socialists.
So there are various small badges, the HK as the shining sun, which outshines everything.
Well, a horseshoe and a shamrock would have looked pretty stupid :D
The 45th I.D. not to be forgotten before 1939

 

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