SMGQ-0438 NSRL Flag 71″x47″

A very nice and hard to find flag! A thin wool type allowing the silk screen design to be seen from both sides clearly. There is some mothing but nothing too distracting or structurally concerning. The fly rope has been removed but we can see the factory reienforced edge near the fly and additional stitching at the far ends to help keep it from fraying in wind. A sure sign that this one was used a flown. These come up very rarely so don’t wait on it, we may never get another one!

The National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise (German: Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen, abbreviated NSRL) was the umbrella organization for sports and physical education in Nazi Germany. The NSRL was known as the German League of the Reich for Physical Exercise (German: Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen, abbreviated DRL) until 1938. The organization was expanded to Austria after that country’s annexation by Nazi Germany.

The NSRL was led by the Reichssportführer, who after 1934 simultaneously presided over the German National Olympic Committee. The NSRL’s leaders were Hans von Tschammer und Osten (1933–1943), Arno Breitmeyer (1943–1944) and Karl Ritter von Halt (1944–1945).