An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction kept with his Wehrpass &

kept with his Wehrpass & Divisional records

1866 – April 14

1917 to the end of the war

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and by those who were wounded in North Africa

An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction kept with his Wehrpass &Italy : 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