Looking for information and/or photos from the 1943 Berlin exhibit of captured Soviet unit flags - one of the Hitler assassination plots almost occured at this exhibit at the Army Arsenal (Zeughouse) Museum down the street from the Fuhrers Reichskanzlei HQ, and this is where the Russians got all the German Army unit flags, now in Moscow, upon the fall of Berlin in 1945. <br><center><img src=http://home.att.net/~b.k.weed/nzflagwave.gif></center><center><a href=http://www.thecolours.info>OldFlagsWanted</a></center>
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...any pre-1944 Berlin Arsenal (Zeughaus) exhibit photos please!
Online Zeughaus background info:Originally posted by oldflagswanted
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By request of Emperor Wilhelm I the Zeughaus was reconstructed from 1877 to 1880 to become the "Pantheon of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army", which included extensive artistic decoration making the this old Prussian weapons depot the central museum of Prussian history with a notable collection of militaria. After World War I the Zeughaus, which until then had been under the supervision of the Ministry of War, was incorporated into the "Prussian Art Collections" as the "Staatliche Zeughaus" or "State Arsenal".
In 1939 Adolf Hitler gave orders to have the Berlin Army Museum taken over by the Wehrmacht, to display the spirit of German heroism, which included captured ememy equipement such as unit flags. Parades and commemorations in the Zueghaus courtyard were part of the German war propaganda until 1944. The museums flag collection went to Moscow in 1945
for use in the Russian Victory Parade where they where thrown onto the steps of Lenin's tomb in front of Stalin, WW1 Imperial German flags too!
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your question is if anyone has any photos of captured flags?? if so i can show some Russan flags being held by Germans.
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....more about c.1943 Berlin Exhibit
Greg:Originally posted by Gregory Koepp
Really looking for photos of the circa 1943 Berlin Army Museum exhibit showing captured Russian unit flags, but always also interested in seeing other location captured unit flags photos - a really famous LAH captured Russian unit flag photo shows three Russian flags: a best artillery unit award flag (ironicly shown captured), and two other Soviet model-1935 Artillery regiment flags - on Red Army unit flags the unit name was embroidered below the Soviet Union state wreath/sun/globe coat of arms, later in the war below a large sun-ray star. Most captured Russian flag photos show labor (farm/factory) award flags and not actual Soviet unit flags, as most unit flags were burned or buried before capture!<br><center><img src=http://home.att.net/~b.k.weed/nzflagwave.gif></center><center><a href://www.thecolours.info>OldFlagsWanted</a></center>sigpic
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