Original Item: Only One Available. Measuring 31" x 46", this is a very good condition cotton NSDAP Flag by Flaggenfabrik Arfelstedt & Hornung of Hamburg + Altona (Nationalflagge/Parteiflagge 1933-45). It is constructed out of a red cotton base with two separately stitched on white cotton roundels that have printed black Saws (hooked cross). The rectangular shaped obverse features a centrally placed black mobile was (hooked cross) surrounded by a white roundel and red base. The reverse is the same as the obverse.

The fly end has been folded and stitched together. It also has 45 degree angle re-enforcing stitching to the fly end corners. The bottom edge has been folded over and stitched. The hoist end has been folded over a white mounting string that is looped on one end and long on the other. The top of the hoist side has a white rayon and red cotton stitched manufacturers tag that reads: Flaggenfabrik Arfelstedt & Hornung Hamburg + Altona.

Overall condone is very good with some areas of staining and nips in the cotton.

This would be a perfect background for a WWII German wall display!

NSDAP Party

The NSDAP, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of N**ism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920. The Party emerged from the extremist German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post–World War I Germany. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. Initially, N**i political strategy focused on anti–big business, anti‑bourgeois, and anti‑capitalist rhetoric. This was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders, and in the 1930s the party's main focus shifted to antisemitic and anti‑Marxist themes.

Ad**f Hi**er, the party's leader since 1921, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933. Hitl** rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich. Following the defeat of the Third Reich at the end of World War II in Europe, the party was "declared to be illegal" by the Allied powers, who carried out denazification in the years after the war both in Germany and in territories occupied by NSDAP forces. The use of any symbols associated with the party is now outlawed in many European countries, including Germany and Austria.