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There is no tool more powerful in a nationalist
culture than aesthetics and while I have heard every reason under the sun for
collecting Third Reich memorabilia and peoples interests, it is without a doubt
about the aesthetics. The Third Reich was a masterful display of the use of
aesthetics in art, culture, uniforms, daggers, medals, and every where you turn
you cant help be drawn in and try and understand it. Its really quite simple if
viewed that way, and quite amazing really.
On November 9, 1923 the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler would find themselves at the Munich beer hall and in the streets to seize power in Munich and Germany out from under the Weimar republic. When the smoke cleared 16 of Hitler's men would lie dead, one would lie mortally wounded on top of a SA flag. This blood stained flag would come to be known as the Blood Flag or Blutfahne, the sacred flag of the N.S.D.A.P was born and 16 martyrs were now established and Adolf was headed to jail at Landsberg where he would pen Mein Kampf. Upon his release the Blutfahne was placed back in the hands of Adolf Hitler and would serve to consecrate new flags in ceremonies, the most notable of these flags would be the Deutschland Erwache.
It is not difficult to see where the design for
these D.E's originated, one look at the banner, finial, tassels, and you are
back in ancient Rome looking at the flag of a Roman legion, a most powerful
statement and even more so as several hundred are marched down the stone steps
of a massive coliseum in Nuremberg designed in similar fashion with flags and
uniforms as far as the eye can see. An amazing display of the power of
aesthetics and nationalism and an amazing history.
(Deutschland Erwache Banner)
There is no tool more powerful in a nationalist
culture than aesthetics and while I have heard every reason under the sun for
collecting Third Reich memorabilia and peoples interests, it is without a doubt
about the aesthetics. The Third Reich was a masterful display of the use of
aesthetics in art, culture, uniforms, daggers, medals, and every where you turn
you cant help be drawn in and try and understand it. Its really quite simple if
viewed that way, and quite amazing really.
On November 9, 1923 the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler would find themselves at the Munich beer hall and in the streets to seize power in Munich and Germany out from under the Weimar republic. When the smoke cleared 16 of Hitler's men would lie dead, one would lie mortally wounded on top of a SA flag. This blood stained flag would come to be known as the Blood Flag or Blutfahne, the sacred flag of the N.S.D.A.P was born and 16 martyrs were now established and Adolf was headed to jail at Landsberg where he would pen Mein Kampf. Upon his release the Blutfahne was placed back in the hands of Adolf Hitler and would serve to consecrate new flags in ceremonies, the most notable of these flags would be the Deutschland Erwache.
It is not difficult to see where the design for
these D.E's originated, one look at the banner, finial, tassels, and you are
back in ancient Rome looking at the flag of a Roman legion, a most powerful
statement and even more so as several hundred are marched down the stone steps
of a massive coliseum in Nuremberg designed in similar fashion with flags and
uniforms as far as the eye can see. An amazing display of the power of
aesthetics and nationalism and an amazing history.
(Deutschland Erwache Banner)