BACKGROUND: With the dissolution of all Free Trade Unions in Germany in May 1933 the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, (German Labour Front), was established to replace the unions and to educate the workers in industry and commerce for smooth and efficient operation of all labor in the Third Reich. In October 1934 the DAF was given official status as a sub-section of the NSDAP and in March 1936 it was recognised as an independent NSDAP affiliated association and granted control of its own monetary budget.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Sports shirt insignia as introduced in January 1938. Machine woven insignia features the DAF emblem of a fourteen tooth cog wheel encompassing a canted swastika, in black on a 125mm diameter white woven rayon base. Reverse has white paper RZM tag with blue printed script and black inkstamped numerals.