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    DAF Flag with static swastika

    Somewhere I think there was a thread on DAF flags. I couldn't find it so I'll post this as a fresh discussion.

    This is an early DAF flag for a Straubing DAF unit. It has the static swastika. It's the only DAF flag I've seen in this configuration. If anyone else has one, I'd love to see it.

    It's stained around the arms of the swastika and missing the rings but otherwise in nice condition.
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      DAF corner patch flags ???

      Originally posted by paulj View Post
      Somewhere I think there was a thread on DAF flags.
      I couldn't find it so I'll post this as a fresh discussion.

      This is an early DAF flag for a Straubing DAF unit. It
      has the static swastika. It's the only DAF flag I've seen
      in this configuration. If anyone else has one, I'd love to
      see it. ...
      Hello paulj:
      Interesting DAF flag, likewise I can't say I've seen one
      with a static swastika inside a white edge cog wheel.
      Other DAF corner patch flag thread was maybe t=494919?
      See       http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=494919
      More commonly encountered DAF configuation is as follows...
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      .......^^^ .................... some of my collection ...................... ^^^...

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        #4
        Very interesting configuration of the corner patch text. What are the overall dimensions of the flag?

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          #5
          It could be the angle or the resolution of the image but the flag is the typical DAF group flag in its dimensions. The patch looks elongated on here but it's not.

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            #6
            I understand the camera angles What I intended to say about the patch was the alignment of the text and the addition of the "Nr." is what I'm not familiar with.

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              #7
              I see no reason to question the nr the thread and stitch type look the same IMO.

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                I think what is meant is not the materials, stitching of the patch, but the way it is structured i.e., the way it is set up, along with the static Swaz, is more indicative of an early NSBO flag.

                This may be a non RZM sanctioned, final pattern DAF flag modelled after the area flag that preceded it.

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                  DAF Flags with numbers and sundry other designations are relatively common. The use of "Nr." here is just another variant, possibly owing to the fact that this is an earlier form before a universal system was established. Here's a link to a couple of DAF flags. The "Osten" piece with the Roman numeral and the numeral is particularly interesting. http://warrelics.eu/forum/attic-old-...af-flag-26100/

                  There could well be an association with NSBO in that Germanic way of subdividing administrative areas with numerical designations that carried over to the DAF. However, chances are that this system was already in existance and used by the local unions and/or chambers of commerce. It was probably adopted by the NSDAP to suit the NSBO in the same way SA Standarte numbers mirrored those of Imperial army regiments

                  The Nazis didn't invent the wheel. They just put a swastika on it.

                  Most collectors aren't particularly interested in German political, social and labor history. It's very complex and not as fun as things blowing up. As a result, accessible resource material for the accesories of that aspect of the Third Reich is limited.

                  In any case, the transition of regalia from the late 1920's and early 30's to the Gleichschaltung after 1933, and standardization that results in the mid-30's remains mysterious in terms of collectibles. Add RZM into the equation and we get as confused with all the regulations as the Germans were at the time. Compliance is another matter entirely.

                  The 1937 NSDAP Org Buch describes the SA Sturmfahne Tradition corner patches as red with silver embroidery but that actually seems to be more the exception than the rule when one finds an SA flag that has them.

                  As a reference, I worked for a German corporation for nearly 20 years. We constantly (at least monthly) received revisions for our 4" thick operations manual (a binder that allowed them to be easily integrated into it). After a decade or so I just tossed the revisions in a pile.
                  Last edited by paulj; 06-25-2011, 10:27 AM.

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