Edelweiss Flower World War 2. It was an oval tombac -plated iron pin-back badge measuring 518 mm by 429 mm. The centre has an edelweiss flower in silver with a gilt centre on a green enamel background.
A surrounding white enamel band bears on its lower portion the word Heeresbergfhrer in gothic script. The only troops who actually wore the flower were those who actually climbed high enough found a flower and picked it. It was an oval tombac -plated iron pin-back badge measuring 518 mm by 429 mm.
Their insignia was the edelweiss the flower that grows above the treeline.
Wehrmacht Gebirgsjger was a World War II Nazi German military two-tone metal qualification badge worn on the distinctive hats of elite mountain troops. This is the black-background edelweiss mountain flower patch for the M-43 Waffen-SS Gebirgstruppen. Here is the repro verison of the German Mountain Troop Paratrooper Edelweiss Metal Badge. Other government resisting German youth groups of World War II include the Swingjugend Swing Youth or Swing Kids and the White Rose two groups that had some cross relations with each other.