Original Item: Only One Available. Here we have a great USGI bring back set from the European theater of WWII, consisting of two NSDAP National flags. These come with a torn bring back CERTIFICATE dated 12 - 1 - 44 that states Sgt. Livens has permission to bring back (2) Two Na** Flags. This indicates that the flags were brought back through official channels, and not just stuffed in a bag as so much bring back material was. This process would ensure that no strategically important documents or dangerous ordnance was brought back.

The first flag is a single piece dyed example measuring 22" x 37", and is constructed out of wool with a canvas header. The header has an installed halyard, with hanging loops on either end for easy mounting. It also has reinforced rectangular areas on all four corners. There is actually a partial RZM tag on the flag, indicating it was officially issued, and it also bears a HJ National Youth Association insignia, so it was intended for that organization. Condition is very good, though as with most wool flags we see, there is light scattered mothing throughout the wool portion of the flag.

The second flag is double sided, measuring 30" x 45", and is constructed out of a red cotton base with two separately stitched on white cotton roundels that have printed black Swasses (hooked crosses) on them. The hoist end has a folded over hemmed channel, which would allow for horizontal or vertical display. Overall condition is excellent, and we do not see any signs that it was ever put into service. It does have age toning to the white roundels, which now have more of a cream color, and there are some scattered stains from storage.

A very nice USGI bring back flag set with the correct documentation. Ready to research and 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.