Authentic WW2 German NSDAP 1935 NATIONAL SEA TRAVEL DAY / COMMEMORATIVE BADGE Music but there were still upper-class

but there were still upper-class men routinely trained in swordsmanship who wished to go armed for self-defense

This was developed during the same period of American "multi-use" military experimentation that produced the Springfield Trapdoor ramrod and M1888 Entrenching Tool Knife

and on the reverse with:

The suffix letters changed as manufacturing developed improvements

of antenna wire W-148

Authentic WW2 German NSDAP 1935 NATIONAL SEA TRAVEL DAY / COMMEMORATIVE BADGE Music but there were still upper-class(Erinnerungsabzeichen) An injection molded aluminum badge in the form of a horizontal oval, 45x41mm in size. To its top is a soaring eagle clutching a wreathed, mobile swastika in its talons. To either side of the swastika is scrolled Seefahrt (Seafaring) and Ist Not (Is Necessary). The base of an anchor may be seen to the base of the surround, with Tag Der Deutschen (Day Of German) and Seefahrt 25. 26. 5. 1935 (Seafaring 25. 26. 5. 1935) scrolled to