Editing Blutfahne (section)

==Beer Hall Putsch==
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The flag was that of the 5th SA ''Sturm'', which was carried in the march towards the ''[[Feldherrnhalle]]''. When the Munich police fired on the National Socialists (Nazis), the flagbearer Heinrich Trambauer was hit and dropped the flag. [[Andreas Bauriedl]], an SA man marching alongside the flag, was killed and fell onto it, staining the flag with his blood.<ref name = hoff>[[Hilmar Hoffmann]], ''The Triumph of Propaganda: Film and National Socialism, 1933-1945, Volume 1'', pp. 20–22.</ref>
 
There were two stories about what happened to the flag in the aftermath of the Putsch: one was that the wounded Trambauer took the flag to a friend where he removed it from its staff before leaving with it hidden inside his jacket and later giving it to a man named Karl Eggers for safekeeping. The other story was that the flag was confiscated by the Munich authorities and was later returned to the Nazis via Eggers. In the mid-1930s, after a myth emerged that Bauriedl had been carrying the flag, an investigation by Nazi archivists concluded that Trambauer was the standard-bearer and that the flag had been concealed by an SA man, not taken by the police, though they had confiscated other flags which they later returned.<ref>Jay W. Baird, ''To Die for Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon'', Indiana University Press, 1992, p. 259.</ref> Regardless of which story was the correct one, after [[Adolf Hitler]] was released from [[Landsberg Prison]] (having served nine months of a five-year prison sentence for his part in the putsch), Eggers gave the flag to him.