German Nazi Swastika Flag
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Red wool bunting cloth with white circle in center. In the center of the white circle is a swastika.
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: In 1920, Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi Party needed its own insignia and flag. For Hitler, the new flag had to be “a symbol of our own struggle” as well as “highly effective as a poster.” On August 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress, this flag became the official emblem of the Nazi Party. In <i>Mein Kampf,</i> Hitler described the Nazis' new flag: “In red we see the social idea of the movement, in white the nationalistic idea, in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work, which as such always has been and always will be anti-Semitic.”
place: label: used
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Flags
label: related event
content: World War II
label: related event
content: The Great Depression and World War II
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: ThinkFinity
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0788.03
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0788.03
label: accession number
content: 1977.0788
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flag, national
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 in x 49 in; 73.66 cm x 124.46 cm