An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction The owner is Berta Sander

The owner is Berta Sander

then returned to the 156th Infantry Battalion ten weeks later

1917 to the end of the war

and by those who were wounded in North Africa

kept with his Wehrpass & Divisional records

An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction The owner is Berta SanderItaly : 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