The SS Sports Badge was a rare SS sports decoration of the German Schutzstaffel

Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...

, created in 1941 as an award of the Germanic-SS

Germanic-SS

The Germanic SS was the collective name given to SS groups which arose in Occupied Europe between 1939 and 1945.The units were modeled on the Allgemeine-SS in Nazi Germany...

. The decoration was solely awarded to ethnic German SS members, and was not intended for presentation to regular German members of the Allgemeine-SS who were eligible for the regular sports awards of the SA Sports Badge

SA Sports Badge

The SA Sports Badge was a decoration of Nazi Germany that was issued between the years 1933 and 1945. It was a political version of the much more generic German Sports Badge which was also issued in great numbers by the Nazis....

 and German Sports Badge

German Sports Badge

The German Sports Badge is a decoration of the German Olympic Sports Federation DOSB, of the Federal Republic of Germany...

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Even within the Germanic-SS, the decoration was very rare, in part that most of the Germanic-SS later became eligible for the Germanic Proficiency Runes

Germanic Proficiency Runes

The Germanic Proficiency Runes was a decoration of the German SS, issued as a type of sports badge to members of the Germanic-SS...

which encompassed the same tests as those required for the award of the SS Sports Badge.