German standards at the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945

The LSSAH standard staff at the parade (first from left)

At the Moscow Victory Parade of 24 June 1945, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, there were a total of 201 German cavalry standards and combat banners, majority being from the Wehrmacht. Carried by a battalion of Soviet soldiers from the Separate Operational Purpose Division of the NKVD, they were thrown to the steps of Lenin's Mausoleum under drumroll during the march past of the ground column. Around twenty standards at the parade were not Nazi and belonged to previous German units (in 1944 Adolf Hitler ordered to move all military unit standards to museums to prevent their capture in a battle). All the rest were made in 1935. Among them was the standard staff of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH); 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 column 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 and banners 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
Number     Military unit
1     3rd Battalion of the 57th Infantry Regiment
2     2nd Battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment
3     1st Battalion of the 45th Infantry Regiment
4     3rd Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Regiment
5     2nd Battalion of the 30th Infantry Regiment
6     1st Battalion of the 7th Infantry Regiment
7     1st Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Regiment
8     3rd Battalion of the 106th Infantry Regiment
9     1st Battalion of the 49th Infantry Regiment
10     2nd Battalion of the 83th Infantry Regiment
11     2nd Battalion of the 81st Infantry Regiment
12     1st Battalion of the 84th Infantry Regiment
13     2nd Battalion of the 24th Infantry Regiment
14     3rd Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment
15     9th Tank Battalion
16     1st Battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment
17     2nd Battalion of the 43rd Infantry Regiment
18     3rd Battalion of the 44th Infantry Regiment
19     1st Battalion of the 22nd Infantry Regiment
20     4th Battalion of the 61st Infantry Regiment
21     1st Battalion of the 36th Infantry Regiment
22     1st Battalion of the 28th Infantry Regiment
23     2nd Battalion of the 51st Infantry Regiment
24     2nd Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Regiment
25     1st Battalion of the 57th Infantry Regiment
26     2nd Battalion of the 38th Infantry Regiment
27     1st Battalion of the 30th Infantry Regiment
28     3rd Battalion of the 43rd Infantry Regiment
29     2nd Battalion of the 88th Infantry Regiment
30     2nd Battalion of the 44th Infantry Regiment
31     1st Battalion of the 106th Infantry Regiment
32     3rd Battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment
33     2nd Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Regiment
34     1st Battalion of the 51st Infantry Regiment
35     3rd Battalion of the 88th Infantry Regiment
36     3rd Battalion of the 7th Infantry Regiment
37     1st Battalion of the 24th Infantry Regiment
38     2nd Battalion of the 28th Infantry Regiment
39     2nd Battalion of the 36th Infantry Regiment
40     3rd Battalion of the 45th Infantry Regiment
41     3rd Battalion of the 30th Infantry Regiment
42     1st Battalion of the 83rd Infantry Regiment
43     3rd Battalion of the 28th Infantry Regiment
44     2nd Battalion of the 116th Infantry Regiment
45     3rd Battalion of the 33rd Fusilier Regiment
46     3rd Battalion of the 22nd Infantry Regiment
47     3rd Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Regiment
48     2nd Battalion of the 22nd Infantry Regiment
49     2nd Battalion of the 28th Infantry Regiment
50     2nd Battalion of the 49th Infantry Regiment
51     3rd Battalion of the 84th Infantry Regiment
52     1st Battalion of the 59th Infantry Regiment
53     1st Battalion of the 88th Infantry Regiment
54     2nd Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment
55     3rd Battalion of the 24th Infantry Regiment
56     2nd Battalion of the 84th Infantry Regiment
57     1st Battalion of the 81st Infantry Regiment
58     1st Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Regiment
59     2nd Battalion of the 45th Infantry Regiment
60     2nd Battalion of the 7th Infantry Regiment
61     1st Battalion of the 43rd Infantry Regiment
62     2nd Battalion of the 59th Infantry Regiment
63     1st Battalion of the 116th Infantry Regiment
64     1st Battalion of the 38th Infantry Regiment
65     3rd Battalion of the 51st Infantry Regiment
66     2nd Battalion of the 57th Infantry Regiment
67     3rd Battalion of the 49th Infantry Regiment
68     3rd Battalion of the 116th Infantry Regiment
69     1st Battalion of the 6th Rifle Regiment
70     2nd Battalion of the 71st Infantry Regiment
71     3rd Battalion of the 71st Infantry Regiment
72     2nd Battalion of the 15th Reconnaissance Regiment
73     2nd Battalion of the 14th Infantry Regiment
74     1st Battalion of the 2nd Tank Regiment
75     1st Battalion of the 21st Reconnaissance Regiment
76     77th Tank Communication Battalion
77     2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry Rifle Regiment
78     29th Combat Engineer Battalion
79     41st Communication Battalion
80     1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry Rifle Regiment
81     48th Communication Battalion
82     2nd Battalion of the 15th Infantry Regiment
83     15th Communication Battalion
84     Jäger Battalion of the 15th Infantry Regiment
85     21st Communication Battalion
86     1st Battalion of the 71st Infantry Regiment
87     48th Combat Engineer Battalion
88     18th Communication Battalion
89     15th Machine Gun Battalion
90     37th Communication Battalion
91     1st Battalion of the 68th Combat Engineer Regiment
92     2nd Battalion of the 7th Reserve Regiment
93     58th Combat Engineer Battalion
94     4th Reconnaissance Unit
95     59th Machine Gun Battalion
96     9th Reconnaissance Unit
97     2nd Battalion of the 116th Reserve Regiment
98     9th Vehicle Transport Battalion
99     1st Bicycle Infantry Battalion
100     29th Communication Battalion
101     2nd Battalion of the 68th Combat Engineer Regiment
102     1st Battalion of the 15th Infantry Regiment
103     1st Battalion of the 31st Tank Regiment
104     2nd Battalion of the 15th Combat Engineer Regiment
105     1st Battalion of the 27th Tank Regiment
106     2nd Battalion of the unnumbered infantry regiment
107     2nd Battalion of the 6th Rifle Cavalry Regiment
108     38th Machine Gun Battalion
109     1st Battalion of the 14th unknown unit
110     28th Communication Battalion
111     1st Rifle Motorcycle Battalion
112     11th Communication Battalion
113     1st Battalion of the 1st Tank Brigade
114     1st Battalion of the 13th Infantry Regiment
115     2nd Battalion of the 1st Tank Regiment
116     41st Combat Engineer Battalion
117     9th Machine Gun Battalion
118     2nd Battalion of the 2nd Tank Regiment
119     1st Battalion of the 15th Tank Regiment
120     2nd Battalion of the 13th Infantry Regiment
121     1st Reconnaissance Unit
122     29th Reconnaissance Unit
123     1st Communication Battalion
124     8th Communication Battalion
125     11th Combat Engineer Battalion
126     3rd Battalion of the 11th Reserve Regiment
127     31st Machine Gun Battalion
128     21st Combat Engineer Battalion
129     1st Combat Engineer Battalion
130     18th Combat Engineer Battalion
131     28th Combat Engineer Battalion
132     15th Combat Engineer Battalion
133     1st Vehicle Transport Battalion
134     8th Vehicle Transport Battalion
135     8th Combat Engineer Battalion
136     1st Jäger Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment
137     1st Battalion of the 10th Infantry Regiment
138     67th Tank Battalion


 Regimental standards
Number     Military unit
176     5th Cuirassier Regiment
177     8th Cavalry Regiment
178     3rd Grenadier Horst Wessel
179     1st Dragoon Regiment
180     10th Uhlan Regiment
181     3rd Cavalry Regiment
182     12th Light Cavalry Regiment
183     10th Infantry Cavalry Regiment
184     9th Infantry Cavalry Regiment
185     4th Hussar Regiment
186     11th Infantry Cavalry Regiment
187     8th Heavy Dragoon Regiment
188     8th Uhlan Cavalry Regiment
189     1st Cuirassier Regiment
190     4th Hussar Regiment
191     4th Uhlan Regiment
192     1st Cavalry Regiment
193     10th Dragoon Regiment
194     1st Uhlan Cavalry Regiment
195     4th Cavalry Regiment
196     1st Cavalry Regiment
197     2nd Cavalry Regiment
198     2nd Uhlan Regiment
199     6th Hussar Regiment
200     4th Cavalry Regiment
201     17th Artillery Regiment


 Division standards
Number     Military unit
139     3rd Division of the 8th Artillery Regiment
140     1st Division of the 9th Artillery Regiment
141     1st Artillery Instrumental Reconnaissance Division
142     2nd Division of the 18th Artillery Regiment
143     18th Artillery Instrumental Reconnaissance Division
144     2nd Division of the 37th Artillery Regiment
145     2nd Division of the 78th Artillery Regiment
146     2nd Division of the 28th Artillery Regiment
147     21st Anti-Tank Division
148     1st Division of the 54th Artillery Regiment
149     1st Division of the 44th Artillery Regiment
150     1st Division of the 45th Artillery Regiment
151     1st Division of the 28th Artillery Regiment
152     2nd Division of the 47th Artillery Regiment
153     28th Artillery Instrumental Reconnaissance Division
154     2nd Division of the 21st Artillery Regiment
155     3rd Division of the 65th Artillery Regiment
156     2nd Division of the 64th Artillery Regiment
157     2nd Division of the 8th Artillery Regiment
158     3rd Division of the 9th Artillery Regiment
159     1st Division of the 8th Artillery Regiment
160     3rd Division of the 21st Artillery Regiment
161     11th Anti-Tank Division
162     2nd Division of the 9th Artillery Regiment
163     15th Anti-Tank Division
164     1st Division of the 116th Artillery Regiment
165     1st Division of the 15th Artillery Regiment
166     3rd Division of the 1st Artillery Regiment
167     37th Anti-Tank Division
168     2nd Division of the 44th Artillery Regiment
169     1st Division of the 57th Artillery Regiment
170     9th Anti-Tank Division
171     1st Battalion of the 13th Motorized Rifle Regiment
172     42nd Division
173     41st Combat Engineer Battalion
174     3rd Jäger Battalion of the 15th Infantry Regiment
175     1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (without banner)

Source :
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_German_standards_at_the_Moscow_Victory_Parade_of_1945