THE SWASTIKA:

STRAIGHT OR
DIAGONAL
 The SWASTIKA Banner of Hitler was straight up,
Most of the army flags were in diagonal…
However Finland had the Swastika much earlier in use.

The aircraft roundel and insignia of

the Finnish Air force from 1918–1945

The flag of the Finnish Air Force

Academy

The Lotta Svärd emblem designed

by Eric Wasström in 1921
 Cover picture: Imperial Eagle with Swastica at the
“Führer’s Building” in Munich; picture taken in the
Munich Documentation Centre for the History of
National Socialism (picture: Stefanie Endlich)
A version of the “Parteiadler der nationalsozialistische deutsche
Arbeiterpartei”, or eagle symbol of the National Socialist German
Workers Party (NAZI party).
Taken from cover of a 1933 edition of “Mein Kampf”* by Adolf
Hitler.

Mein Kampf= my fight

Nazi Youth Day symbol 1932
Vintage 1930’s Germany NSDAP Propaganda
Postcard “Adolf Hitler directs to Back it up” Hitler
asking for popular voter support of the German Nazi
NSDAP Party holding a banner with German Eagle,
Swastika and NSDAP Symbol
Nuremberg Rally 1937 in Nuremberg, Germany - Adolf Hitler
holds a speech in an atmosphere created by searchlights in
front of the political leaders of the NSDAP, 110,000 of whom
- according to Nazi news reporting - have lined up for a roll
call on Zeppelin Field at the Nazi party rally grounds. On the
podium from right to left Adolf Hitler, head of the German
Labour Front Robert Ley, Reich Minister Rudolf Hess,
colonel general Hermann Goering and Hitler's chief adjutant
Wilhelm Brueckner.
Façade of the Luitpold Hall during the Nuremberg Rally, 1937. Invasion
of the field characters in the Luitpold Hall, the old Congress Hall, on the
Nuremberg Rally Grounds in Nuremberg during the ' Nuremberg Rally
of Labor' 1937. The Vertical Swastika IS Hitler’s personal emblem, the
flags in the background are from the army, most military and para-
military units showed a diagonal Swastika. They were not allowed to
use the same symbols as the führer. Date taken: 7 September 1937
Location: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Adolf Hitler in a speech on the Nuremberg Rally, 1937
Nuremberg Rally 1937 in Nuremberg, Germany - March-in of the
standards for the great roll-call of the SA (Sturmabteilung), SS
(Schutzstaffel), NSKK (National Socialist Motor Corps) and NSFK
(National Socialist Flyers Corps) at Luitpoldarena at the Nuremberg
Rally site. All these special units received the Fuhrer’s standard as an
honor.
Nuremberg 1937
Flag presentation on the Reich Party Congress in Nuremberg, 1937.
Adolf Hitler, Minister of the Interior Dr. Frick und General Daluege (r. n.
l.) during the national anthem at the Reich Party Congress on the
Deutschherrenwiese. Date created: 01.01.1937-31.12.1937.
Nuremberg Rally 1937 in Nuremberg, Germany - Consecration of
new standards with the 'Blood Flag'I front) by Adolf Hitler (not
pictured) during the roll call of Sturmabteilung (SA),
Schutzstaffel (SS), National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) and
National Socialist Flyers Corps (NSFK) at Puitpoldarena at the
Nazi party rally grounds, here entrance of the 'Blood Flag'
carried by 'bearer of the Blood Flag' Jakob Grimminger. New
standards of SA and SS were 'consecrated' by touching them to
the 'Blood Flag', which supposedly was carried in the failed Beer
Hall Putsch.
Nuremberg Rally 1937 in Nuremberg, Germany - German Reich
war flags (Reichskriegsflagge) are flown on the occasion of
'Wehrmacht Day' on the grandstand on Zeppelin Field at Nazi
party rally grounds.
Nuremberg Rally 1937 in Nuremberg, Germany - Adolf Hitler
consecrates new standards with the 'Blood Flag' during the roll
call of Sturmabteilung (SA), Schutzstaffel (SS) and National
Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK), here handshake after the
consecration. New standards were consecrated by touching
them with the 'Blood Flag' which supposedly was carried in the
failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich
Story of the Blood Flag or Blutfahne : The failed Beer Hall Putsch

The flag was that of the 5th SA Sturm, which was carried in the
march towards the Feldherrnhalle. When the Munich police
fired on the Nazis, the flagbearer Heinrich Trambauer was hit
and dropped the flag. Andreas Bauriedl, an SA man marching
alongside the flag, was killed and fell onto it, staining the flag
with his blood.

There were two stories about what happened to the flag in the
aftermath of the Putsch: one was that the wounded flagbearer
Heinrich Trambauer took the flag to a friend where he removed
it from its staff before leaving with it hidden inside his jacket and
later giving it to a Karl Eggers for safekeeping. The other story
was that the flag was confiscated by the Munich authorities and
was later returned to the Nazis via Eggers. In the mid-1930s,
after a myth emerged that Bauriedl had been carrying the flag,
an investigation by Nazi archivists concluded that Trambauer
was the standard-bearer and that the flag had been concealed
by an SA man, not taken by the police, though they had
confiscated other flags which they later returned. Regardless of
which story was the correct one, after Adolf Hitler was released
from Landsberg prison (having served nine months of a five-year
prison sentence for his part in the putsch), Eggers gave the flag
to him.
Sacred Nazi symbol

After Hitler received the flag, he had it fitted to a new staff and
finial; just below the finial was a silver dedication sleeve which
bore the names of the 16 dead participants of the putsch.
Bauriedl was one of the 16 honorees. In addition, the flag was
no longer attached to the staff by its original sewn-in sleeve, but
by a red-white-black intertwined cord which ran through the
sleeve instead.

In 1926, at the second Nazi Party congress at Weimar, Hitler

ceremonially bestowed the flag on Joseph Berchtold, then head
of the SS. The flag was thereafter treated as a sacred object by
the Nazi Party and carried by SS-Sturmbannführer Jakob
Grimminger at various Nazi Party ceremonies. One of the most
visible uses of the flag was when Hitler, at the Party's annual
Nuremberg rallies, touched other Nazi banners with the
Blutfahne, thereby "sanctifying" them. This was done in a
special ceremony called the "flag consecration" (Fahnenweihe).

When not in use, the Blutfahne was kept at the headquarters of

the Nazi Party in Munich (the Brown House) with an SS guard of
honor. The flag had a small tear in it, believed to have been
caused during the Putsch that went unrepaired for a number of
years.
Disappearance

The Blutfahne was last seen in public at the Volkssturm

induction ceremony on 18 October 1944 (not, as frequently
reported, at Gauleiter Adolf Wagner's funeral six months
previously). This ceremony was conducted by Heinrich Himmler
and attended by Wilhelm Keitel, Heinz Guderian, Hans
Lammers, Martin Bormann, Karl Fiehler, Wilhelm Schepmann
and Erwin Kraus.
After this last public display, the Blutfahne vanished. Its current
whereabouts are unknown. However, it is speculated to have
been destroyed by fire during the destruction of the Brown
House in Munich in 1945.

Hitler and NSDAP treasurer Franz Xaver Schwarz at the

dedication of the renovation of the Palais Barlow on Brienner
Straße in Munich into the Brown House headquarters,
December 1930.
In 1934, Hitler became Germany's head of state with the title of
Führer und Reichskanzler (leader and chancellor of the Reich).
Hitler's personal standard.
Hitler didn’t allow military units, except his famous personal SA
and NSDAP bodyguard units, to use exactly the same Swastika
emblem…. That’s why there are many different (diagonal)
versions just like the Blood flag. My father (Clemens Rosez told
me that the Swastika of the Blood flag as not black but blue.
A red vexillum, at the center a black upright swastika with a
silver-black border in a white disk with a silver border. Above
the disk the word Deutschland (Germany), below the word
Erwache (awake!). Surrounded by a silver black-white-red fringe
(except at top). Ratio 5:6. Connected by a black-white-red rope
to a red rectangle with the name of the unit (earlier with the
letters NSDAP). The top of the staff has an eagle grasping a
swastika in a wreath. The tops of the Deutschland Erwache
standards are incorrectly drawn. The eagle has spread wings and
not closed. This is also valid for the SS, NSKK and the NSFK
standards.
This picture shows Hitler holding the “Blood Flag,” the flag
carried during the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, probably the most
sacred “sacred” relic of the Nazi Party. This is also the reason
why many Army (Wehrmacht) units took over this version of the
Swastika.
This pictures shows Horst Wessel at the head of an S.A. column at the
1929 Nuremberg Rally. He was killed shortly after under
circumstances that the Nazis concealed.
https://ww2gravestone.com/the-nazi-1923-blutfahne-or-blood-flag/
 MORE “PARTEIADLERS” original STANDARDS 1922/23

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Germany, Third Reich - Nuremberg Rally 1935 The “Leibstandarte Adolf
Hitler” with its standard (Hitler's personal bodyguard regiment) during a
roll call of the SA and SS (the swastika-standard has the inscription:
Germany awake) (Photo by Ullstein bild/Ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Flag swastika Nazi party rally
See above picture:
However the Marine and army units had behind the fürher
standards their own flags and symbols where we can see that the
Swastika was represented in diagonal. Interior of "the Gestapo
office" at Lofoten War Memorial Museum in Norway: Nazi
Germany's navy Kriegsmarine flag with swastika
(Reichskriegsflagge"), SS uniform with skull cap (Totenkopf),
handcuffs, German Security Police spring steel baton
(Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO) Stahlrute), leather coat with swastika
armband/armlet, black SS helmet (Stahlhelm), desk clock
decorated with RAD emblem, telephone, prisoner's striped
uniform, Signal magazine, Nazi wall eagle (Adler), notice wall
posters in German and Norwegian (Bekanntmachung, Kunngjøring
from Josef Terboven 1941-03-23), etc.
The Zwingtanzen verboten sign is a modern fake.
Most of the Partei flags and symbols were destroyed in 1945, while
the uncountable number of the Wehrmacht unit’s flags survived
for a larger part. That’s why there are still more flag and other
artifacts in the after war collections showing a diagonal Swastika.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=38&v=FTodK2
4KG6E&feature=emb_logo
Troops: SS soldiers march in a procession at a convention of the
Nazi Party in 1933.
… and there was Storm… Dutch volunteers in the Waffen Waf-Waf.
http://www.waffen-ss.nl/stormss1.jpg
http://www.waffen-ss.nl/stormss.php
Millions collaborated in Europe:
De Nederlandse arbeidsdienst aan het oostfront –
Nationaal-socialistische propaganda
… en Walen en Vlamingen