Vintage GST Gesellschaft Sport Technik East German DDR Army Rifle Pin Badge
Vintage GST Gesellschaft Sport Technik East German DDR Army Rifle Pin Badge
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- An pretty pin badge made from a gold coloured metal. The badge face is 2.6cm high and has a safety clasp style fastener to the rear. Featuring the text Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik and featuring the logo of the organisation.
- What began in 1952 as a mass organisation for the leisure activities of young people increasingly developed in a paramilitary direction. From the mid-1970s, the Society for Sport and Technology (GST) called itself the »socialist military organisation of the GDR« and took on the military education of adolescents. by Jörn Kleinhardt (6 Aug 2020)