Description
Product Description: This German Podium Banner is a very nice original, in outstanding condition. It’s an appealing, displayable size, measuring 50×95 cm (about 20 x 37 inches). The body of this flag is made of a red fabric that retains bright original color. A white roundel with printed black swastika emblem is affixed to one side of the flag. The edges of the flag feature a white fabric border, and the bottom edge has an attractive gold fringe. Factory style straight machine stitching is used throughout. Both D-ring loops on the upper corners for hanging the banner are intact. This German Podium Banner does not appear to have ever been issued or used. It is nearly factory fresh, and the fabric still has stray threads from manufacturing (so-called “Irish pennants”). There is one very small area of light soiling on the white swastika disc- otherwise, this flag is absolutely perfect. It’s an impressive display object, in excellent/very good condition.
Historical Description: The red flag with white central disk and black swastika was introduced by Hitler in the 1920s as the flag of the National Socialist political party. In 1933, shortly after the Nazis took power, this party flag was recognized alongside the black-white-red Imperial tricolor as one of Germany’s national flags. In 1935, the use of the tricolor flag was discontinued, and between September 1935 and May 8, 1945, the Nazi party flag was the sole national flag of Germany. From its creation in the 1920s through the end of the war, this swastika flag was made and used in endless variations, from the massive banners hung at Party Day rallies to small pennants, bunting flags, and hand-held paper flags distributed along parade routes. These flags, banners and pennants flew from ships, were hung from official and private buildings, and were displayed outside business and private homes. At the end of WWII, the Allied military governments abolished the use of all Nazi symbols, including the national flag. Most Third Reich era German national flags were simply destroyed.
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