The flag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Jason P. Halpern and Barbara H. Katz, children of Myron Halpern.
Rectangular red cloth flag with a white cloth circle with a black swastika inside sewn to the center of both sides. There are multiple signatures in black and blue ink within the circle, around the swastika, on 1 side. A 75th Infantry Division patch is sewn on the center of the swastika.
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overall: Height: 30.625 inches (77.788 cm) | Width: 36.500 inches (92.71 cm)
German flag with a swastika on a white circle captured by Myron Halpern with his fellow soldiers of the 75th Infantry Division, United States Army, during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. The flag was signed by all platoon members. A 75th Division insignia patch was sewn in the center of the swastika by a captured German soldier held as a prisoner of war, who was a tailor.
German flag signed by 75th Infantry Division members