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editThe Blutfahne is a much older flag used under the Holy Roman Empire of German Nations! All the National socialists did (as so often) was using a much older symbol or just it's name to make something "more traditional".
Please look it up and correct this article accordingly ... (It had to do with Blood_courts.)
Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.192.219.127 (talk) 10:03, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Existence?
edit"After this last public display (in 1944 -- my inclusion), the Blutfahne vanished into history. Its current whereabouts are unknown, and it is not even certain whether the flag still exists."
As one of the relics of the Nazi regime that had the closest approximation to a religious icon, any possible survival depends upon its disappearance. It would have been an obvious target for destruction by any of the Allies if identified as the Blutfahne. It would surely not long survive rediscovery anywhere in Germany.
The Nazis would have had obvious cause to keep its destruction in any air raid a secret if it were in fact destroyed. Pbrower2a (talk) 07:29, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
- The article says it was stored in the Brown House, the Munich Nazi Party headquarters. The building was bombed twice during the Allied air raids, and was "largely destroyed late in the war." I'm tempted to say the flag might have been destroyed when the building was bombed, depending on whether or not that "largely destroyed" came before or after the flag's last verifiable public appearance.
- Another historically interesting Nazi flag that's still missing is the divisional flag for the Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler. The famous pic of the Soviets parading captured Nazi battle flags has the LAH standard up front, but a bare pole. The flag is gone.WiseguyThreeOne (talk) 06:44, 25 November 2013 (UTC)