Tank Destroyer Battalion ID’d Podium Banner

Product Description: This early, Tank Destroyer Battalion ID’d Podium Banner is a visually very striking piece of history. A captured flag ID’d to the 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion with four names inked around the swastika and below. A rare flag ID’d to a rare unit. It is square in shape, and made of red dyed cotton twill fabric with a large swastika roundel machine sewn to the center. Each edge is trimmed with white fabric, which adds visual appeal and immediately sets this apart from a standard national flag. The measurements of this flag are 71 x 71 cm (28″ x 28″), perfect for display. This flag shows age, with some heavy age toning, light staining, and a few minor tears. The original corner attachment hardware is missing, and there are holes at the corners from having been pinned or nailed to a podium or wall in the past. This early Tank Destroyer Battalion ID’d Podium Banner is a one-look original piece, that displays very well. The condition rates as a strong very good.

Historical Description: The red flag with white central disk and black swastika was introduced by Hitler in the 1920s as the flag of the National Socialist political party. In 1933, shortly after the Nazis took power, this party flag was recognized alongside the black-white-red Imperial tricolor as one of Germany’s national flags. In 1935, the use of the tricolor flag was discontinued, and between September 1935 and May 8, 1945, the Nazi party flag was the sole national flag of Germany. From its creation in the 1920s through the end of the war, this swastika flag was made and used in endless variations, from the massive banners hung at Party Day rallies to small pennants, bunting flags, and hand-held paper flags distributed along parade routes. These flags, banners and pennants flew from ships, were hung from official and private buildings, and were displayed outside business and private homes. At the end of WWII, the Allied military governments abolished the use of all Nazi symbols, including the national flag. Most Third Reich era German national flags were simply destroyed.

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