Carla_Danger
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- Feb 10, 2013
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I think it is deliberately nasty for the Freedom Party to use this flower. Why not choose another flower? You'd think they would try to distance themselves.
"The cornflower is a complicated symbol," Vienna historian, Bernhard Weidinger, tells me. "It was the German Kaiser Wilhelm's favourite flower, and was used by pan-German nationalists in the 19th Century.
"Then between 1934 and 1938, when the Nazis were a banned party in Austria, it was the secret symbol they used to wear in order to recognise each other."
The beautiful flower with an ugly past - BBC News
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"The cornflower is a complicated symbol," Vienna historian, Bernhard Weidinger, tells me. "It was the German Kaiser Wilhelm's favourite flower, and was used by pan-German nationalists in the 19th Century.
"Then between 1934 and 1938, when the Nazis were a banned party in Austria, it was the secret symbol they used to wear in order to recognise each other."
The beautiful flower with an ugly past - BBC News