Military Banners

Military banners seen as a source of pride and honor for a unit of soldiers, or as a way to dishonor a defeated foe by showing them disdain and defiling them. With regards to defilement is the historical event, the Moscow Victory Parade of 24 June 1945 marking the defeat of National Socialist Germany. A total of 200 captured German military standards and flags selected out of some 900 were ceremoniously thrown to the steps of Lenin's mausoleum under drumroll. Almost all were then placed in the Central Armed Forces Museum.
For groups such as STASI 9 this was an injustice that had to be rectified. A plan was devised to reclaim the banners and either intern them with the fallen or place them in a museum to be a source of remembrance for future generations.
Complaints and accusations were thrown by the Neo-Soviet Russians at the Allied German States calling for the members of STASI 9 to be arrested and extradited to Russia to stand trial for terrorism. These calls were ignored, largely due to the Great Dragon Lofwyr telling all sides to "Shut up." The flags and banners then ended up in the  new German Military Museum, except for one.
The single missing banner is the LSSAH banner, Liebstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. The Russians viewed it as Hitler's personal flag. That it was captured in Berlin, though reports differ, one stating it was found inside the Reich Chancellery bunker. The other stating it was discovered in the Liebstandarte barracks. STASI 9 in one of their few and rare statements states that the flag the Russians had is a fake. That the real one was buried in Austria with fallen soldiers of the unit before those surviving members surrendered to the then American forces. No soldier would have wantonly have left their unit's banners to be taken under any condition, either in a barracks or a bunker. Especially the bunker as at the very least the banner would have been burned along with Hitler's remains. 
Now the LSSAH banner has gained a mythic reputation. No one knows where it truly is, be it the real one or a reproduction.