Cornflower?

The stuff you use to make batter? Who knew it was a Nazi symbol?



(By the way, I use the London Guardian for stories because they’re reliable and free and these days the paper of record. They have their biases, which they’re entitled to, and Lord knows they make mistakes, but on the whole they’re fairly solid.)

Comment on the story: do I read correctly that one far-Right group has accused another of drifting to the Left?

Edit to add: whoops, I’m an idiot - that’s cornflour, d’uh.

Here’s Wikipedia on the symbolism:

The blue cornflower was one of the national symbols of Germany. This is partly due to the story that when Queen Louise of Prussia was fleeing Berlin and pursued by Napoleon's forces, she hid her children in a field of cornflowers and kept them quiet by weaving wreaths for them from the flowers. The flower thus became identified with Prussia, not least because it was the same color as the Prussian military uniform. After the unification of Germany in 1871, it went on to become a symbol of the country as a whole. For this reason, in Austria the blue cornflower is a political symbol for pan-German and rightist ideas. It was worn as a secret symbol identifying members of the then-illegal NSDAP in Austria in the 1930s. Members of the Freedom Party wore it at the openings of the Austrian parliament since 2006. After the last general election 2017 they replaced it with the edelweiss. 
It was also the favourite flower of Louise's son Kaiser Wilhelm I. Because of its ties to royalty, authors such as Theodor Fontane have used it symbolically, often sarcastically, to comment on the social and political climate of the time. 
The cornflower is also often seen as an inspiration for the German Romantic symbol of the Blue Flower.

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