For many years the German flags were thought to have been burned after the parade, but actually they ended up on display in the Moscow Red Army Museum, where if you have an extra $35,000 available you can now buy one! Most were taken from the Berlin War Memorial Museum, such that many non-World War Two German unit flags from the Imperial era were also included in the rain soaked flag toss before Stalin onto the steps of Lenin's Tomb. I am not sure I recall the painting in question but from the description the flags in question are Infantry (called Grenadier after 1942) unit flags.Īctually there were 500 German flags used in the 1945 Moscow Victory Parade. I saw several photographs with similar themes mostly dating from 1945. The illustration which I have to hand is 30 x 16cm and is in Igor Golomstock's Totalitarian Art, London 1990. I presume that they must be military colours of some sort. Except for the swastikas, they seem more Prussian than Nazi. The odd thing (to me) is that all of the flags (except one which is obscured) have white rather than red fields: they are square, gold-fringed flags with large iron crosses in the centre and small black swastikas in each corner. Red Army soldiers are shown throwing German flags and vexilla in heaps at the foot of Lenin's tomb as state and military dignitaries look on. There is a frequently-reproduced painting by the Russian artist Mikhail Khmelko entitled Triumph of our Fatherland which shows the victory ceremony in Moscow's Red Square on V-E day. On the subject of Third Reich flags, this is a question which I have intended to ask for some time. Pictures of German Army colours at the Russian Central Armed Forces Museum website.A picture of German Flags at the 1945 Soviet Victory Parade at the Lenin Museum website.Colour for Infantry Units 1936-1945 (Germany).German Flags at the 1945 Soviet Victory Parade.Keywords: german flags at the 1945 soviet victory parade | victory parade: moscow | soviet union | This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website German Flags at the 1945 Soviet Victory Parade German Flags at the 1945 Soviet Victory Parade
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