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Red and Black Tulip Memorial by Mark Mindler's Scout Group
Every year Mark Mindler's Scout Group remembers him with a service at his graveside where they place red and black tulips on his grave. Red and black representing two of the colours of the Bavarian flag.
I looked at the article on Wikipedia for the Bavarian flag. The flag has got a shield in the middle which has the colours red and black. Where I got the information from I cut and paste in to Olympic Games talk. Do I need to cut and paste it here as well? Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 19:05, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The shield has all kinds of colours in the arms of the various historical territories, but that has no relation to the flag itself. It is like stating that because the Greek state emblem has green laurels, green can somehow stand in for white and blue. The modern state flag of Bavaria is also entirely unrelated to the colours a 19th-century person would choose to represent his homeland, especially since German state flags do not usually feature the state's arms (if you can read German, check [1]. As someone who actually grew up in Germany, I can tell you that no Bavarian associates "black and red" with Bavaria in any way. The source has it wrong, I am afraid. Constantine ✍
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