List of German standards at the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945


At the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, there were a total of 201 German military standards. Carried by a battalion of Soviet soldiers, they were thrown to the steps of Lenin's Mausoleum under drumroll at the end of the parade. Around twenty standards at the parade were not Nazi and belonged to previous German units. All the rest were made in 1935. Among them was the standard staff of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler ; its banner had been found separately and was not brought to the parade. The staff was carried in a prominent place on the right of the front rank of the first block of soldiers. It has been incorrectly called Hitler's personal standard which went missing during the war. After the parade additional color shots were made showing the flags of various Nazi organizations being thrown to the ground. The shots were added to the official video of the parade.
The standards were selected from a pool of about 900 standards shipped to Moscow from Berlin and Dresden. Some of them were collected by SMERSH trophy teams in May 1945 and some were taken from museums. The show of contempt to the standards at the parade was proposed by Joseph Stalin, stemming from the old custom of "disdain not for the enemy, but for his defied military distinctions" in the troops of Alexander Suvorov. In order to not touch the standards themselves the soldiers wore gloves. The following list is based on the list of standards approved by Colonel Peredelsky on 21 June 1945. It includes 138 battalion, 36 Division and 26 regimental standards. The standard staff of LSSAH was approved separately from the list. All standards are now housed in the Central Armed Forces Museum of Moscow.

Battalion standards

Division standards

Regimental standards