Hitler Youth Flag Pole Top...

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<center>Hello:
Does anyone know what these pole top marks are?</center>
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[Erich B.]

Ben,
It may stand for APAG--Aluminium-Pr******228;zisions-Armaturen-Guss GmbH.
Erich

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..more on HJ-DJ tops and flags...

...may stand for APAG--Aluminium-Präzisions-Armaturen-Guss GmbH.
Erich

<center>Erich:
Nice info, which I was able to also confirm elsewhere online
- thanks! Just obtained this DJ pole top (with the APAG marks)
to go with my NSDAP Ausland Organization Guatemala DJ
Bannfahnen (see below). Only a couple of these flags are known
to have survived WW2 - Portugal and Paraguy, found like mine
in the NSDAP-OA HQ in Stutgart at the end of WW2. Have seen
a c.WW2 period photo of one for China, and the offical NSDAP-OA
unit list also included one for Palestine! See my Bender Military
Advisor magazine (Winter 1994/95 Vol-6, #1 issue) article for more
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[Erich B.]

Super flag! And super rare, needless to say. That'll make a nice set. I assume that most if not all of the accoutrements used by the Ausland groups were imported from Germany, rather than locally made? I've seen a few enameled badges and cloth items that were made in Ausland areas, for example in Mexico, but not much else.
Erich

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...about NSDAP Ausland group items

Super flag! And super rare, needless to say. That'll make a nice set. I assume that most if not all of the accoutrements used by the Ausland groups were imported from Germany, rather than locally made? I've seen a few enameled badges and cloth items that were made in Ausland areas, for example in Mexico, but not much else.
Erich

<center>Erich:
Yes, the fews surviving NSDAP Ausland group flags, that I have seen, all
appear to have been made in Germany to RZM specs. As for other AO items
I can not say, as I only collect flags. As per my article on these flags, which
cites a 1943 U.S. State Dept. publication #1864 entitled National
Socialism - the Nazi Party's Foreign Organization, a number of the NSDAP AO groups were banned prior to WW2. In 1934 South-West Africa with its 688 Nazis out of a German population of 2,140 was first to go, followed by Brazil in 1937, with 2,903 Nazis out of 75,000 in-county Germans, and then Chile and Argentina in 1938, and the Guatemala group in 1939. Some of these AO group flags could, therefore, have conceivably been returned to Germany prior to, or early in the war, to be later captured at the AO HQ in Stutgart by U.S soldiers in the 1945 fall of Germany. </center> <center><img src=http://home.att.net/~b.k.weed/nzflagwave.gif>
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