BACKGROUND: The DRL, "Deutschen Reichsbundes für Leibesübungen" (German State-league for Physical-training), incorporated the NSRL, "National Sozialistische Reichsbund für Leibesübungen" (National Socialist State-league for Physical-training), into it in 1938. The original NSRL emblem, being a national eagle with down-swept wings and a mobile swastika superimposed on its breast, was a carried over to the DRL. 

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: An approximately 120cm x 65cm, printed cotton flag, whose red field is broken in the center by an 24cm wide white column, which widens into a 48cm diameter circle to its center, against which is printed a black NSRL eagle with a white swastika superimposed upon its breast. Bunting edge is 3cm in width with a swivel hook attachment in zinc is sewn to the hoist edge. Rope from the bottom edge of the bunting is no longer present. There is a faint hard to read ink stamp present on the bunting. To the red field near the other end of the tunnel loop is ink stamped a shield with a cross within it, no doubt a manufacturer’s logo. The flag has numerous small holes and hand sewn repair to both its red and white fields. Nice salty example, good display size.

GRADE ***                             PRICE $358.00