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Object number2015.4.6

Date1935

MediumCotton, thread

Credit LineTransfer from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

DescriptionRed, rectangular, vertical banner. White fabric circle sewn on the center with a black swastika in the center. Bottom edge is frayed. Top edge has a hanging pocket across it.Dimensions89.2498 x 44.7499 x 0.25 in. (226.7 x 113.7 x 0.6 cm)
MarksTag attached to flag read: "GERMANY / 16,065/1 / Nazi flag, Trier, 1945 / [Swauger]"

Inscription Carnegie number reads: "16065. / 1." Pen and Ink Front bottom right corner
Historical NotesNazi Party banner brought back from Europe after WWII by James L. Swauger. According to an accompanying note the banner was from Trier. Donated to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History by James L. Swauger, transferred to the Heinz History Center. The donor grew up in Turtle Creek and during the war was a member of Second Platoon, Dog Battery, 796th Anti-aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (self propelled). His uniform was part of an earlier transfer by the Carnegie.

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