Blutfahne

When the Munich police fired on the National Socialists (Nazis), the flagbearer Heinrich Trambauer was hit and dropped the flag.

[4] In 1926, at the second Nazi Party congress at Weimar, Hitler ceremonially bestowed the flag on Joseph Berchtold, then head of the SS.

One of the most visible uses of the flag was when Hitler, at the Party's annual Nuremberg rallies, touched other Nazi banners with the Blutfahne, thereby "sanctifying" them.

The Blutfahne was last seen in public at the Volkssturm induction ceremony on 18 October 1944[citation needed] (not, as frequently reported,[6] at Gauleiter Adolf Wagner's funeral six months previously).

Its current whereabouts are unknown, but it is generally assumed to have been destroyed amidst the Allied bombing of Munich in 1945.