Wolfsangle badge: Real or Fake?

[Newbie]

Hello, here is a few pics of a pin, for the Nederland div., any idea if it real or fake? Thanks guys !!

[Newbie]

I would really love some opinions on this pin, it is missing the back, but i am wondering if this is real or fake, it is for the Nederland div.

[Zeller]

hello newbie
that has nothing to do with SS or Nederland Division. It's an original but incomplete WHW tinnie from the youth hostel serie.

[Newbie]

It looks like the same symbol used as the Nederland Div. , it is a HJ pin?

[Walkwolf]

It looks like the same symbol used as the Nederland Div. , it is a HJ pin?

According to Zeller, it is a civilian 'Winter Helf Werk' or 'WHW' tinnie/badge
that is missing it's pin. These were sold to raise funds during the war
and there are a wide variety of styles and subjects. They were made
in glass, metal, cloth, wood, ceramic, plastic, and even leather
- as yours looks to be.

It may well have been the Nederland Division runic logo as you state,
but these pins were never worn by them.






Regards, Steve.

[Zeller]

Hi, one small correction to my previous post: these tinnies are not related to DYH; the collection was produced in offenbach and leipzig and given on 1-2 February 1936. There were 5 different colours.

The wolfsangel was and still is a popular sign in northern Europe, it is also in the state shield of some german cities. No relationship with Nederland , although they adopted the same symbol.

[Troy Tempest]

Hi Matt, you also forgot it was made in Westerwald Newbies is number four (T033.4) in the collection of five. So it is definitely a fake Totenkopf/bogus SS pin, and broken to boot! And Newbie, there were 12,060,877 produced.