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Anti-Fascist Socialists (Antifaschistische Sozialist_innen), or more formally Anti-Fascist Socialist Women and Socialist Men (Antifaschistische Sozialistinnen und Sozialisten) are a group of Democratic Socialists, active mainly in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, with the main goal of active struggle against ultra-rightist movements. Their logo [1] showed two red flags on white, the completely visible one being charged with three white arrows, all within a red ring charged with the formal name of the organization inscribed in white. This is a combination of the emblems of Iron
Front and the short-lived Anti-Fascist Action of the 1930's [2, 3]. While a flag seems to have been devised [1], with large logo on red field, fimbriated white, its real-life use is questionable, for no photos have confirmed it so far.
Sources:
[1] Social Democracy in Rhineland-Palatinate website - essay on the
Anti-Fascist Socialists.
[2] Anti-Fascist Action at Wikipedia (in English).
[3] Anti-Fascist Action at Wikipedia (in German).
[5] Anti-Fascist Socialists website - Presentation.
[6] Anti-Fascist Socialists website - Report from a demonstration in
Ludwigshafen in 2009.
Tomislav Todorovic, 10 September 2001
Images by Tomislav Todorovic
The use of these two flags has been verified and are similar to those of the Iron Front, but with the arrows in center [1, 5, 6]. The arrows always point downwards, either towards the fly [1] or towards the hoist [5]. [See sources above]
Tomislav Todorovic, 10 September 2001