front of the Royal Palace and in the Lustgarten. A sea of red
flags, red armlets and red flowers was in itself sufficient to give
that huge assembly of about 120,000 persons an outward
appearance of strength. I was now able to feel and understand
how easily the man in the street succumbs to the hypnotic magic
of such a grandiose piece of theatrical presentation.
The bourgeoisie, which as a party neither possesses or stands for
any outlook at all, had therefore not a single banner. Their party
was composed of 'patriots' who went about in the colours of the
Reich. If these colors were the symbol of a definite philosophy
then one could understand the rulers of the State regarding this
flag as expressive of their philosophy, seeing that through their
efforts the official Reich flag was expressive of their philosophy.
But in reality the position was otherwise.
The Reich was morticed together without the aid of the German
bourgeoisie and the flag itself was born of the War and therefore
merely a State flag possessing no importance in the sense of any
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