Landwacht Auxiliary Police Solid Backed Badge

Highly unusual solid backed pin badge that would have been worn above the left breast pocket. The pin may have been re-glued, however, this is an original badge and not a copy.

Almost all that you see are cap badges – not breast badges

*In January 1942 Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Inneren, , established the Landwacht, to be utilized in guarding the prisoners of war within the borders of the German Reich. *