r/vexillology • u/kbhina • May 29 '25

Identify Help identify this flag in Germany

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Found this flag cut out sticker in the small German town of Irrel. Can someone identify this flag?

Irrel: https://maps.app.goo.gl/NgVkz7ow3FFwUmX3A?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

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u/TimeRisk2059 May 29 '25

In fairness Ernst Röhm (leader of the nazi Sturm Abteilung) was also homosexual. But he claimed that his form of homosexuality was the "good kind", a warrior's homosexuality among brothers in arms, and not a decadent type of homosexuality among degenerates (which was the "bad kind").

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u/Madatsune May 29 '25

The main reason he got killed because he was part of the left wing that wanted a violent social revolution and was in control of the largest militia by numbers at the time. But him belonging to a social group the right wing of the Nazi party (which was in control after the purge that killed him) wanted to exterminate didn‘t exactly help his case.

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u/TimeRisk2059 May 29 '25

Yeah, it was more because he was a rival for power that Hitler needed to get rid of to be the unquestioned leader of the nazi party, than his homosexuality, but it certainly didn't help.