Examples of such awards include to General Wilhelm Keitel for his direction of the 1938 occupation of the Sudetenland, and to Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz in 1943 for war services.

In the beginning, the founding party members wished to make their membership appear larger, so they issued numbers starting with 500.

Oddly, according to the article, after the theft was reported, the Federal Security Service insisted the stolen badge was a copy.

The sale included written, sworn statements of authenticity by two persons very close to Hitler when he was the leader of Nazi Germany.

Winter was arrested by Bavarian State Authorities for theft of Hitler documents and artifacts from his home in Munich.

Listed in a signed 1953 attestation of items given to her by Hitler were his small and large pre-1937 golden party badges, described as numbered '7.'

In the 1930s, Rudolf Hess had explored the possibility of making the Golden Nazi Party Badge the first degree of a multi-degree award of the German Order.

Hess's degrees were never instituted, but the later German Order retained the Golden Nazi Party Badge as its centerpiece.