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The public display of Nazi flags is illegal nationwide, as well as in the states of New South Wales, [79] Queensland, [80] Tasmania, [81] Victoria [82] (also banned the Nazi salute) [83] and Western Australia. [84] Laws have also been proposed in the remaining states and territories.
Today, the Nazi swastika flag remains in common use by neo-Nazi supporters and sympathisers outside Germany, whilst in Germany neo-Nazis use the homeland's flag of 1933–1935 instead, since the above-mentioned ban on all Nazi symbolism (e.g. the swastika, the Schutzstaffel's (SS) double sig rune, etc.) is still in effect within today's Germany ...
3:5 National flag of Germany (1933–35), jointly with the swastika flag. 3:5 National flag of Germany and marine jack of Germany (1935–45). After the Nazi Party seized power on 30 January 1933, the black-red-gold flag was swiftly scrapped; a ruling on 12 March established two legal national flags: the reintroduced black-white-red imperial tricolour and the flag of the Nazi Party.
The public display of Nazi-era German flags (or any other flags) is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees the right to freedom of speech. [244] The Nazi Reichskriegsflagge has also been seen on display at white supremacist events within United States borders, side by side with the Confederate ...
“You may have a Nazi flag. You may have a Confederate flag, and so you are allowed to display those flags for the purpose of those lesson plans. If it is part of the curriculum, then that is OK
Flag of the Nazi Party (1920–1945), but with the swastika replaced by the Iron Cross due to § 86a. Occasionally used by neo-Nazis. The text of the law does not name the individual symbols to be outlawed, and there is no official exhaustive list. A symbol may be a flag, emblem, uniform, or a motto or greeting formula.
The 20th-century German Nazi Party made extensive use of graphic symbols, especially the swastika, notably in the form of the swastika flag, which became the co-national flag of Nazi Germany in 1933, and the sole national flag in 1935. A very similar flag had represented the Party beginning in 1920.
A driver of a truck was arrested and a Nazi flag was seized at the scene after the vehicle rammed into security barriers near the White House.