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    With Robert's permision, I've changed the name of this thread to encompass the various names this organisation took.

    While I'm here I'll also add an explanation of those abbreviations for anyone who doesn't know this group of badges.

    This/these organisation(s) were concerned with workers who had suffered industrial injuries or accidents. Originally known by the name Nationalsozialisticher Reichsverband der deutschen Arbeitsopfer (National Socialist Association for Work Victims), it was soon redsignated to Gesamtverband Arbeitsopfer (United Association of Work Victims).

    It then changed it's name once more, this time to Gesamtverband deutscher Arbeitsopfer (United Association of German Work Victims), then finally to Deutscher Arbeitsopfer Versorgung (German Work Victims Welfare)

    Cheers

    Don

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    • 6 years later...

    Welcome to the forum Jock.

    Thank you for bringing this thread to the top again & for posting your badges. Is it an just an illusion or is one of the badges larger than the other? In your first picture they look different sizes, but in the next they seem the same....

    I'll dig out some pictures of the examples that I have picked up since this thread was created & post them later.

    Cheers

    Don

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    Now the above DOAV is the usual version marked to Wagner, however there are Deschler marked pieces around, much harder to find.

    The differences are noticable, less blackening to the obverse to bring out the highlights & the pin plate is held on by aluminium extrusions through holes in the plate. Unusually for Deschler, the maker mark is raised rather than impressed.

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    Hi Don

    Your DAOV is the first one I have seen in the badge type, I have been looking for one for a long time. This badge is so hard to find it didn't even appear in the book Labor Organisations of the Third Reich.

    The membership card is a beauty as well

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