Deutsche Arbeitsfront swastika and cogwheel banner acquired by a US POW
a: Height: 52.000 inches (132.08 cm) | Width: 55.000 inches (139.7 cm) b: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
a. Red cloth flag with a swastika encircled by a gear-wheel, with a patch identifying it as having been used in Rosmin (present day Roscimin, Poland).
Deutsche Arbeitsfront banner (German Labor Front / DAF) acquired by Major Milton Evans Dowse, United States Army, after his liberation from Oflag 64, a German prisoner-of-war camp in Szubin, Poland, in January 1945. The flag has a swastika encircled by a gear-wheel, and a patch identifying it as having been used in Rosmin (present-day Roscimin, Poland). DAF was the only authorized trade union in Germany. The Nazi regime abolished all other trade unions in 1933 in order to ensure political control over industry.
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The flag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Milton Richard Dowse.