Stahlhelm Wettkampfflieger 1938 Award WWII German

Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (The Steel helmet, League of front-line Soldiers), commonly known as Der Stahlhelm (The Steel helmet), was a German first World War ex-servicemen’s organisation existing from 1918 to 1935. It was part of the “Black Reichswehr” and in the late days of the Weimar Republic operated as the armed branch of the national conservative German National People’s Party (DNVP), placed at party gatherings in the position of armed security guards (Saalschutz).