Original Items: Only One Set of Two Available. Here we have a nice pair of small flags, representing the European members of the Axis Powers: Germany and Italy. The German flag is a very nice WWII Era German National Socialist Political Flag (Nationalflagge / Parteiflagge 1933-45), which measures a nice small 14 ½" x 20". It looks to be of all cotton construction with a single piece red field, and is double sided, having a single piece cotton white circle with a printed black Swas (Hook Cross) stitched onto each side.

The flag is in very good condition, and has a folded over hem on one of the narrow sides for hanging. Colors are well retained, though there are stains and age toning to the insignia, as is usual.

The Italian flag is the standard WWII Era type, and measures 16" x 24", and is of single piece wool construction with a printed design and stitched on canvas header, which is marked „FIB“ Pola. It has the correct green, white, and red bards with the Savoy Coat of Arms is dyed into the white central portion. There is a halyard for hanging stitched into the header, with a loop at the top and a 15" tie at the bottom. The Savoy Flag was adopted in 1861 and relinquished in 1946 with the current flag design.

The flag definitely does show wear and staining from age, as well as some holds due to mothing, almost impossible to avoid with wool WWII flags. The colors are still vibrant however, and it displays well.

A very nice European Axis powers flag set, ready to add to your collection!

NSDAP Party

The NSDAP, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of N**ism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920. The Party emerged from the extremist German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post–World War I Germany. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. Initially, N**i political strategy focused on anti–big business, anti‑bourgeois, and anti‑capitalist rhetoric. This was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders, and in the 1930s the party's main focus shifted to antisemitic and anti‑Marxist themes.

Ad**f Hi**er, the party's leader since 1921, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933. Hitl** rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich. Following the defeat of the Third Reich at the end of World War II in Europe, the party was "declared to be illegal" by the Allied powers, who carried out denazification in the years after the war both in Germany and in territories occupied by NSDAP forces. The use of any symbols associated with the party is now outlawed in many European countries, including Germany and Austria.

Flag of Italy
The national flag of Italy, often referred to in Italian as il Tricolore, is a tricolor featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, national colors of Italy, with the green at the hoist side, as defined by article 12 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic. The Italian law regulates its use and display, protecting its defense and providing for the crime of insulting it; it also prescribes its teaching in Italian schools together with other national symbols of Italy.

The Italian Flag Day, named Tricolor Day, was established by law n. 671 of 31 December 1996, which is held every year on 7 January. This celebration commemorates the first official adoption of the tricolor as a national flag by a sovereign Italian state, the Cispadane Republic, a Napoleonic sister republic of Revolutionary France, which took place in Reggio Emilia on 7 January 1797, on the basis of the events following the French Revolution (1789–1799) which, among its ideals, advocated the national self-determination. The Italian national colours appeared for the first time in Genoa on a tricolour cockade on 21 August 1789, anticipating by seven years the first green, white and red Italian military war flag, which was adopted by the Lombard Legion in Milan on 11 October 1796.

After 7 January 1797, popular support for the Italian flag grew steadily, until it became one of the most important symbols of the Italian unification, which culminated on 17 March 1861 with the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, of which the tricolor became the national flag. Following its adoption, the tricolor became one of the most recognizable and defining features of united Italian statehood in the following two centuries of the history of Italy.