A Veteran’s Organization NSKOV Honour Badge

(Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung): Bronze gilt with blue and white enamels, unmarked, 27.5 mm x 38 mm, vertical pinback, flaking evident in the blue enamels, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung (NSKOV = National Socialist War Victim's Care) was a social welfare organization for seriously wounded veterans, as well as frontline fighters of the First World War. The NSKOV was established in 1934 and was affiliated to the Nazi Party. After Nazi Germany's defeat in the Second World War, the American Military Government issued a special law outlawing the Nazi party and all of its branches. Known as "Law number five", this denazification decree disbanded the NSKOV, as with all organizations linked to the Nazi Party. The organizations taking care of the welfare for First World War veterans had to be established anew during the postwar reconstruction of both West Germany and East Germany.