An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction and by those who were

and by those who were wounded in North Africa

1917 to the end of the war

kept with his Wehrpass & Divisional records

Footnote:SS-Gruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the Waffen-SS Hermann Prieß (1901–1985) was a recipient of the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords

An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction and by those who wereItaly : Silver, maker marked "S. JOHNSON MILANO" on the reverse, 38 mm, vertical pinback, dark patina, very light contact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning between 1926 and 1937, when it was absorbed into the Giovent Italiana del Littorio (GIL), a youth section of the National Fascist Party. It takes its name from Balilla, the nickname of Giovan Battista Perasso, a