Got some more flags to share today, though this time these ones are a bit special... they're all flags for the mythical Nazi criminal organization known as
ODESSA. Hypothesized to be a possible underground escape network for former SS officers fleeing Germany, the existence of ODESSA as an
actual organization is rejected by most experts, though the "ratlines" that many Nazis used to escape Europe
did exist. That said, ODESSA as a concept is
wildly popular in spy thrillers and conspiracy theories, and as such I've taken to making it the boogeyman villain of my
alt-history map setting just so I can have a punching bag of an acceptable target.
With that context out of the way, onto the flags:
First flag, the main flag of the ODESSA organization as a whole. Let me tell you, getting the word ODESSA spelled out here was a pain to figure out, but that was
nothing to how the Black Sun emblem was a
bitch-and-a-half to make.
Second flag, is the local branch of ODESSA in the Independent State of Rhodesia. Yes, you heard that right:
you know that Rhodesia flag redesign I posted a page back? Why
else would it have that vaguely-swastika-shaped symbol on it? Because Nazis, that's why.
Next flag here is for the North African branch of ODESSA, with the emblem here being a recreation of the insignia of the
German Afrika Korps, famously led by Erwin Rommel.
This next flag is for the neighboring branch in the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Yemen, etc. Bit more risky to hide out in the Middle East, though, as you're much more likely to be paid a visit by Mossad.
Moving on north a bit, here is the flag for the Iberian branch (i.e. Spain and Portugal). Now historically, Franco and Salazar
did both have some role to play in the Nazi ratlines... but in my alt-history setting, Salazar is dead in Brazil and Franco was overthrown by the CNT-FAI after he invaded Portugal... so how exactly the Nazis can have a ratline through a Communist Spain, I don't really have an answer for...
Similarly, here's the flag for the French branch: again, like above, how exactly the Nazis can have a ratline network in a country that's seething for revenge after years of brutal occupation and humiliation, I have no idea. You'd think anybody with a
hint of German accent would be lynched by an angry mob of collaborator-hunters... but eh, it's ODESSA; you can't have an implausibly-widespread secret conspiracy without
some way for them to stay undetected in hostile territory, right?
The last two flags here are for the branches in Brazil and Argentina, respectively - and the most historically-accurate of the whole bunch, being the two locations where several ex-Nazis have been
verified to have fled to after the war. Argentina in particular is particularly joked about as being Naziland, given that there's a notable German minority present and that were
so many former Nazis caught here. Brazil is here more because I wanted to reference the Millennium Battalion from
Hellsing Ultimate.
So that's all of the flags I have for now! Until next time, when I'll probably have something
less controversial than a bunch of Nazi flags.
