German Shipping Badge 1935
$125.00
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Description
Third Reich Era, Germany 1935 Badge. Shipping is a necessity. It was a novel written by Johann Kinau, along with the name of a National Socialist Magazine for sailors. The motto came from the Latin: Navigare necesse est, vivere non = shipping is a necessity, life is not. These words were recorded as having being uttered by the Roman leader Pompey the Great. Rome relied on imported grain by sea to feed the population. Sailors did not want to set to sea during rough weather and that’s what Pompey told them – shipping is a necessity, life is not. The USA magazine Military Advisor published an extensive 21 page article on this badge in Volume 18, number 4, 2007. There were many different makers – the maker details stamped into the back of the badge. Badge measures approximately 4cm wide x 4.5cm in height.
