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[RonR]

This one is about 4 foot by 4 foot.

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[David Guist]

Thats a nice one.Do you happen to know what year they turned the swaztica ?

[oldflagswanted]

Ditto that ...

Thats a nice one.Do you happen to know what year they turned the swaztica ?

Hello day:
Ditto that, indeed "a nice one". The word "Cordillera" appears to
be in Spanish, it would be more likely "Kordilleren" in German. As such,
this flag may be a rare "Auslander" location example. I would hazzard
to guess it is from a German area in South America, say along the
"mountain coast" of Chile, which is what the word "Cordillera" means
IMO. As for the date when the swastika became uniformly mobil, I
believe that was circa 1933, around the same time as the turn around
of the DE boxes. In any case a nice early pattern nazi party cell flag.

[oldflagswanted]

another explanation ???

This one is about 4 foot by 4 foot.

RonR:
Another explanation for this flag may be that it was the party
cell flag aboard a German ship named the "Cordllera", based
on the fact that post WW2 the former German ocean liner SS
Europa, as part of the reparations to France, was sold to Chile
in 1969 where she was renamed the Cordillera. So maybe a
earlier pre-WW2 German ship once had the same name?
............. OLDFLAGSWANTED ............

[FrankS]

a ship was also my first guess - and here she is:





The CORDILLERA was a motorship built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg in 1932 for the Caribbean service of the Hamburg America Line. She was a 12,051 gross ton cargo vessel, length 497.8ft x beam 65.8ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 16 knots. On March 12th 1945 she was bombed and sunk by the RAF at Swinemunde, raised in 1949, she was repaired and ceded to the USSR. In 1951 she was renamed RUSS

[oldflagswanted]

smoking gun photo ???

a ship was also my first guess - and here she is:
...The CORDILLERA was a motorship built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg in 1932 for the Caribbean service of the Hamburg America Line. She was a 12,051 gross ton cargo vessel, length 497.8ft x beam 65.8ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 16 knots. On March 12th 1945 she was bombed and sunk by the RAF at Swinemunde, raised in 1949, she was repaired and ceded to the USSR. In 1951 she was renamed RUSS

Hello Frank:
Good job, nice smoking gun photo, or rather I mean smoking ship photo!

[helmuthunter]

Ron, you really do have the coolest stuff, congrats and regards Johnno.

[ivbaust]

Yep, the flag belonged to the ship

The abbreviation "M.S." stands in German for "Motorschiff" (motor ship).

This naval term MS is still in use today, sometimes one will also find MV for motor vessel.

Nice flag!