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Flag Date Use Description 1940: Proposal flag for General Government of occupied Poland: Flag proposal for the newly General Government, known only from the description. [4] 1939–1945: Unofficial flag of New Swabia: Flag of Reichskolonialbund and common flag for all German colonies during the Nazi period, in practice only for the New Swabia.
On 15 September 1935, one year after the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg and Hitler's elevation to the position of Führer, the dual flag arrangement was ended, with the exclusive use of the Nazi flag as the national flag of Germany.
It is worth noting, however, that the swastika flag of the Nazi Party was to be flown along with this flag. [6] In September 1935, a year after Hindenburg's death and Adolf Hitler's elevation to the rank of Führer, the swastika flag became the national flag of Germany; [7] the old imperial flag was deemed "reactionary", and banned. [8]
Since German reunification in 1990, the President has been the head of state for all of Germany. The East German constitution of October 1949 created the office of President of the German Democratic Republic (German: Präsident der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik). Upon the death of Wilhelm Pieck in 1960, the office of president was replaced ...
In Germany, the applicable law is paragraph 86a of the criminal code (StGB), in Poland – Art. 256 of the criminal code (Dz.U. 1997 nr 88 poz. 553). This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Because Prussia had emerged as the leading German state and the black-red-golden colour scheme was, at that time, associated with pan-Germanism (a Germany including Austria) and the revolution of 1848, the Prussian king and President of the North German Confederation, Wilhelm I, insisted on using new flags inspired by Prussia and without the ...
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
26 August – The Kriegsmarine orders all German-flagged merchant ships to head to German ports immediately in anticipation of the invasion of Poland. 1 September – At 04.45 Central European Time, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opens bombardment on the Westerplatte , a Polish military base outside Danzig , firing what are, according ...