Cap Badge Landwacht.

Zinc based and in a very good, probably unworn condition.
Not marked but a known variation.

The Landwacht was founded in 1942 by order of the Reichsfuhrer SS, Heinrich Himmler. It was a auxiliary police force. Subsequently, Landwacht posts were posted at all major gendarmerie posts in the Reich. Its members were armed. They supervised prisoners of war and forced laborers. In addition, the Landwacht was also used in the search for escaped prisoners of war. In the urban areas, these tasks were carried out by the so-called „City Watch“. Land guard units of the SS were also set up in the General Government and in the Netherlands. In November 1942, the 1st SS Landwacht Battalion Zamosc was set up in the Litzmannstadt resettlement camp on the orders of SS and Police Leader Lublin, Odilo Globocnik. And in the Netherlands, the SS and Police Leader Northwest, Hanns Albin Rauter, ordered the formation of the Netherlands Land Guard, which was combined on March 11, 1943 to form the SS Grenadier Regiment 1 „Netherlands Land Guard“.