Posted on 02/24/2015 2:13:29 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
..."I want to say sorry to everyone who might have been upset by the flag," Mr Baker told the Doncaster Free Press.
"I didn't know exactly what the flag means and I still don't.
"I Googled it and realised I had dropped a massive blunder. I just want to apologise for any upset I might have caused."
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Ah, goldfish poop.
As a fellow flag collector, I simply cannot believe he just bought this and had zero idea what he was running up his flagpole.
Flags have incredible emotional power. Even mainstream ones. You have to be really mindful of what you put up.
When I moved to the Washington DC area in the late 1970’s, my morning commute include a few miles on Wilson Blvd. in Arlington.
The American Nazi Party office was just a few houses off Wilson Blvd and the “US Nazi Party” variant of the swastika flag flew from a large flagpole - very hard to miss from Wilson Blvd.
It looks like a unit flag. The deaths head makes me think Totenkopf Division, but that’s a random guess as I don’t pretend to know anything about Nazi heraldry. The deaths head, by the way, was in use in the German and Prussian armies long before the Nazis came along. The Wikipedia story says it was a unit badge in Frederick the Great’s cavalry. The British army also has its “death or glory” regiment, the 17th Lancers, who adopted the deaths head badge after the charge of the Light Brigade. I don’t know if any U.S. units have ever used a deaths head, but the idea must have occurred to most armies at one time or another.
No muzzies complained...
OK , just viewed the article and photo’s ... this was no accident ,, red/black, deaths head , counterclockwise swastika , lightning strikes (not once but twice) ... you’d have to be brain dead to not recognize it for what it is...
Um...what’s a Red Rose flag
I need to hear it, too. I didn’t find an immediate reference. Maybe it’s a death camp emblem, but the first reference I run across is the Tudor flag so unless one is Catholic I don’t know the significance.
Doncaster is in Yorkshire.
Lancashire ,Red rose
Yorkshire, White Rose
A remnant of a medieval argument. :)
I agree. I’ve loved flags for 30 years. There is ZERO chance of him not recognizing the meaning of the flag.
That said, it doesn’t look authentic to me. Looks like a mish mash of symbols someone threw on to a flag. Not an authentic design from what I could see.
“.......I simply cannot believe he just bought this and had zero idea what he was running up his flagpole.”....
Rookie flag collectors innocent mistake my behind, he knew exactly what that flag meant. He deserves the wrath of all of us who know what and by whom that flag was for. Would he have done the same with an ISIS flag? I think not!
See post #12.
I agree. Mish-mash. Note the crowns on the flag. They don’t belong.
(Yes, at least one SS division had a crown in it’s unit crest but Hitler was quite contemptuous of the old royal regime.)
P.S. A little guick googling turned up this website, http://www.loeser.us/flags/nsdap_military.html, which identifies the flag as belonging the the SS Heimwehr Danzig battalion, which was formed in the Free City of Danzig prior to the German invastion of Poland. It fought with the Germans in the invasion and was later absorbed by the SS Totenkopf division.
Public school educations ain't what they used to be!
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