Description
Product Description: This Hitler Youth Pennant is an appealing piece that clearly saw use during the time period. It’s high quality, multi-piece construction. The body of this attractive pennant is made of two pieces of red fabric with a separate white stripe. Straight machine stitching in white thread is used throughout. Each side of the pennant has a nice and textbook original Bevo machine woven Hitlerjugend diamond swastika emblem. These emblems are both affixed with nicely executed zig-zag machine stitching. This pennant shows evident heavy wear. Four holes on the hoist end show where this was once attached to a pole or whatever it flew from. The fabric shows fading and soiling from use, with some small stains, as well as expected age toning. There is also a bit of hand sewing on one corner, possibly a repair or a remnant of some attachment method. This Hitler Youth Pennant is an evocative display object. The condition rates as very good plus.
Historical Description: During the Third Reich and WWII, a wide variety of flags and pennants were used on German cars and vehicles. In the military, vehicle flags and pennants were used to indicate branch or rank, or specific command roles. The various civilian organizations also had vehicle flags and pennants for members of their organization or to denote the vehicles of officers, leaders, or people in specific roles. Even political leaders had their own flags, which were often rank specific. Some of the flags, especially military ones, were simply printed, and some were machine woven or stitched, while the flags for political leaders and the highest-ranking military personnel were more decorative and often elaborately hand embroidered in bullion wire. Some vehicle flags were mass produced, including simple national flag type swastika emblem pennants that could have been bought by any patriotic supporter. Others were unique. These flags were attractive souvenirs for GI troops at the end of the war and are eagerly collected today.
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