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Andreas Bauriedl
Andreas Bauriedl (d. 1923) was an early member of the Nazi Party. He was a participant in the attempted Nazi Putsch in Munich, Bavaria, on November 9, 1923.
When the Munich Police opened fire on the marchers, Bauriedl was hit in the abdomin, killing him and causing him to fall over the Nazi flag which had fallen to the ground when it's flagbearer (Heinrich Trambauer) was severely wounded. Bauriedl's blood soaked the flag.
The flag later became a sacred relic to the Nazis (the Blutfahne), and Andreas Bauriedl - along with the other participants of the putsch who were killed - were regarded as the the first martyrs to the Nazi Party. His body was interred in a crypt in Munich as part of a memorial to the putsch. The memorial was demolished by the Allied occupation forces at the end of World War 2.
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