Hofbauer,
I'm not that sure if there is no connection with the police. A police star is the first thing I thought about because the ressemblance with the star the Dutch police used to wear is quite striking. Another remarkable fact to my opinion is that the nazi flag star and the star on the flag from the Thuringia State Police as shown on http://www.fotw.ca/flags/de_933po.html have exactly the same number op "petals" in the same waving eight pointed pattern:
Now, how probable is that for a coincidence?
I'm not trying to say that it IS a police star but it seems to me that there is probably a connection between te two, maybe because of a common back ground.
On the same site, an page can be found with several flags from the East German police after the war with the same ressemblance on http://www.fotw.ca/flags/de^ddrvp.html like this one:
Dutch examples of the police stars:
[ February 26, 2002, 10:17 AM: Message edited by: Garulfo ]