Original Item: Only One Available. Gorgets hold an interesting place in history, as they are a throw-back to the days of knights, when suits of armor included a neck protection device called a Gorget. They have been used since that time to identify membership or function in various military and police organizations, and Gorgets were thoroughly used during the Third Reich.

This is a very nice example of a the hanger chain for a mid-WWII style German National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - NSDAP) Political Leader Standard Bearer's Gorget. These would be worn at meetings and even in the field, to make it clear who was of a higher rank, who would also carry the standard / flag during parade formations. Similar gorgets were used in other parts of the NSDAP organizational structure.

The SA Leader's Gorget would be held this gilt brass chain, with alternating wreathed swas (hook cross) and eagle insignias on the panels. It is maker marked with the ((RZM)) insignia and maker M1/102 on the reverse of both end panels, for Frank & Reif of Stuttgart.

Overall condition is very good with light overall wear, and lots of the original darkening still present. Ready to dress up an SA Leader's gorget that has lost the chain and display!

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei , abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the NSDAP Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945, that created and supported the ideology of National Socialism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920.

The NSDAP Party emerged from the German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post-World War I Germany. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. Initially, NSDAP political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric, although this was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders, and in the 1930s the party's main focus shifted to anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist themes.