#24488
02/15/2010 10:10 PM
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I obtained this flag from a 101st Airborne veteran and cannot find it
in any refernce books, nor do I find any for sale in online catalogs. Can someone please tell me the nomenclature of this flag and what was its intended purpose?
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#24489
02/15/2010 10:11 PM
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Here's a closeup of the black rectangle in
the upper left corner-Thanks, MB
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#24490
02/15/2010 10:20 PM
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Here's a 1945 photo of a recently-liberated example. The GI is Robert Rossi of the 712th Tank Bn, attached to the 90th ID.
I still don't know what the heck it is!
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#24491
02/16/2010 01:04 AM
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It is the flag of the NSRL, a Nazi controlled Sports organization Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund f�r Leibes�bungen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...r_Leibes%C3%BCbungenThe canton patch is for the Turner bund, another organization with Nazi ties in the period, that also had a sporting element to it.It still exists today. http://www.dtb-online.de/portal/I have no information that there was any official ties between the two, there very well may have been.The Turner bund goes back further than the NSRL.In this case, they were combined in this area.
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#24492
02/16/2010 02:39 AM
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Bando, Nice sport association flag!! I had one a couple years ago with the corner patch but the pole rings had been cut, I'll have to find a pic of it for you, the patch was the same style as yours chain stiched on a black silk type back ground, is your patch double sided?
Fritziii
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#24493
02/16/2010 04:22 AM
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Thanks for the info guys-Now that you mention it, I think the patch is double-sided. The flag is stashed back in a footlocker, piled under others and right now it is highly inconvenient for me to take it out and re-examine it. Besides I'm going out of town for a week starting tomorrow. Regards, MB
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#24494
02/18/2010 03:38 AM
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Amazing. The Bahrenfelder Turnverein von 1898 e.V. is still in existence in the city of Hamburg. I doubt they would want it back, though.  Hamburg is up in the North, American Troops did not make it to Hamburg. Strange that the flag was captured much further South...
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#24495
03/13/2010 04:32 AM
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That is the third sports flag I have seen with a gau patch. My eagle on my flag is sewn on pieces both sides. the other was printed. Which is yours please? Thanks, Pete
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#24496
03/14/2010 05:57 PM
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Most of the printed ones will be war time produced.
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