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A triband is a vexillological style which consists of three stripes arranged to form a flag. These stripes may be two or three colours, and may be charged with an emblem in the middle stripe. [1] All tricolour flags are tribands, but not all tribands are tricolour flags, which requires three unique colours.
The flag was square in shape, but did not have a well-defined size. 1940–1945: Commander flag for a Wehrmachtbefehlshaber: A Wehrmachtbefehlshaber was the head of all military units in an occupied territory that was not under military administration. The flag was square in shape, but did not have a well-defined size.
August von Mackensen, German field marshal in hussar full dress prior to 1914, with the Totenkopf on his fur busby. Totenkopf (German: [ˈtoːtn̩ˌkɔpf], i.e. skull, literally "dead person's head") is the German word for skull.
This is a list of flags, arranged by design, serving as a navigational aid for identifying a given flag.Uncharged flags are flags that either are solid or contain only rectangles, squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols.
[3] The traditional "Jolly Roger" of piracy. Flag of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, first designed in the 1930s. For Ahmadi Muslims, it symbolizes the advent of the Mahdi. Chetnik flag inscription reads: "For king and fatherland; freedom or death". The Jolly Roger, or skull and crossbones, is flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates about to ...
' Imperial War Flag ') refers to several war flags and war ensigns used by the German armed forces in history. A total of eight different designs were used in 1848–1849 and between 1867–1871 and 1945. Today the term refers usually to the flag from 1867–1871 to 1918, the war flag of Imperial Germany.
Restored by Tsar Alexander I in 1815 as the war ensign flag of the Congress Kingdom. Flag of the Russian Tsar as king of the Congress Kingdom in 1815–1830. De facto flag. The state entity did not have an officially adopted flag. 1794: Banner of 2nd Kraków Grenadier Regiment: One of banners used by Polish scythemen during Kościuszko Uprising.
SS-Panzerdivision "Totenkopf") [1] was an elite division of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II, formed from the Standarten of the SS-TV. Its name, Totenkopf , is German for "death's head" – the skull and crossbones symbol – and it is thus sometimes referred to as the Death's Head Division .