Germany, Third Reich. A National Association of German Midwives Membership Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and two brown leather straps

and two brown leather straps with eight buckling holes on the left strap and seven buckling holes on the right

eagle 90mm in length

tear marks on the reverse

3 mm (h) x 42

with damage to enamels to the 6 o'clock arm

Germany, Third Reich. A National Association of German Midwives Membership Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and two brown leather straps(Reichsfachschaft deutscher Hebammen Mitgliedsabzeichen). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a radiant white enameled Geneva Cross, inset with a depiction of a mother and child, surrounded by gilt letters RDH (Reichsfachschaft deutscher Hebammen) and a swastika, situated within a blue enameled ring bearing a gilt inscription of IM DIENST DER ZUKUNFT UNSERES VOLKES (IN THE SERVICE OF THE FUTURE OF OUR PEOPLE),