A 1942 Lufthansa Sports Competition Award Document

Certificate for winning pentathlon at Lufthansa youth sports meeting, 30 x 41.9 cm; Date of item: 1942; Condition: very good, signs of aging. A certificate for the winner of the pentathlon in the first youth group at the Lufthansa Sportfest (sport meeting) 1942. It is given out by the Lufthansa Sports Community Berlin, is signed, and dated to Sep 9th, 1942. The letters encircling this information read: To be German means to be loyal, to be true, to be a fighter. Underneath is the logo of the Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise). Whether the Lufthansa Sports Community has any affiliation to the Deutsche Lufthansa AG, the largest German airline, cannot be determined with certainty. However, the airline was already operating during this time, being founded in 1926.