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Nederlands: Brussel, Kon. Museum Krijgsgeschiedenis
English: Standard for artillery units within the Wehrmacht Heer, the army of Nazi Germany 1936-1945. Corps color (Waffenfarbe):red, bright red.
  • Brian L. Davis and Malcolm Mcgregor: FLAGS OF THE THIRD REICH 1: WEHRMACHT (Osprey Military Men-At-Arms Series 270, 1994):
Artillery & Führerbegleitbatallion standard (left side)
ARMY STANDARDS
The German Army employed 'Standarten' or standards for units other than those which carried flags (Fahnen). In the main these were mobile units, either wheeled, tracked, mounted or horse-drawn. Eleven different coloured standards are known to have existed. The background arm-of-service colour of the field for these eleven standards was as follows:
Pink for armoured units, gold-yellow for cavalry, bright red for artillery, light blue for supply, lemon- yellow for signals, white for motorised infantry, black for motorised engineers, light green for motorised rifles, and Bordeaux red for chemical warfare troops. Before the outbreak of war it is probable that both light brown and grass green were used for standards presented to certain Army signals units, and lorried rifle and motorcycle units, respectively. A standard of a special design with a background colour of bright red was used by the Führer Escort Battalion.
With the exception of the standard for the Führer Escort Battalion, which is described separately, all eleven coloured patterns of the Army standard were identical in size, design and quality, and therefore a detailed description of the standard for cavalry units has been chosen to represent them all.
The Führer Escort Command & Battalion; The honour of protecting the person of the Führer, whether on military operations, manoeuvres, when in the field or at the Führer's military headquarters, originally belonged to the Army. Hitler's military bodyguard, the 'Führerbegleitbataillon', was an Army unit furnished on a rotating basis from the battalions of the élite Infanterie-Regiment 'Gross-Deutschland'.
As part of the German artillery the Beobachtungs-Abteilungen (artillery observation battalion) were also presented with standards in bright red
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