Condition: Excellent
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Product Description: This artistic BDM JM Pennant is an extremely attractive and likely unique piece, for the Nazi female youth organization. It’s fairly large, about 30 inches long and 19 inches high. The body of the pennant is made of a black cotton poplin fabric. One side features a Hitlerjugend diamond and swastika organizational emblem, nicely done in multi-piece construction with machine stitching. The wording “JM Altencelle,” for the Jungmaedel unit in Altencelle, is beautifully done in white chain stitching, in Suetterlin script. The other side of the pennant has a beautiful multi-piece design, with a swastika on a white field surrounded by a red ring, with white rays radiating from it. The corners on the hoist end have metal clips for hanging. One of the clips is affixed with hand stitching, while the other has become unstitched and is held in place with a safety pin. This beautiful artistic BDM JM Pennant is in excellent condition, with a couple of stains, but no tears or rips. It makes for a very eye-catching and impressive display item.
Historical Description: During the Third Reich and WWII, a wide variety of flags and pennants were used on German cars and vehicles. In the military, vehicle flags and pennants were used to indicate branch or rank, or specific command roles. The various civilian organizations also had vehicle flags and pennants for members of their organization or to denote the vehicles of officers, leaders, or people in specific roles. Even political leaders had their own flags, which were often rank specific. Some of the flags, especially military ones, were simply printed, and some were machine woven or stitched, while the flags for political leaders and the highest-ranking military personnel were more decorative and often elaborately hand embroidered in bullion wire. Some vehicle flags were mass produced, including simple national flag type swastika emblem pennants that could have been bought by any patriotic supporter. Others were unique. These flags were attractive souvenirs for GI troops at the end of the war and are eagerly collected today.
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