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This list of German flags details flags and standards that have been or are currently used by Germany between 1848 and the present.
When Germany was unified at the end of the 19th century, the national flag had stripes of black-white-red. After the defeat of the Second Reich in World War I, that flag was replaced by the black-red-yellow under the Weimar Republic. Many Germans, however, rallied around other flags they felt better represented the true German spirit.
The Nazis banned usage of the imperial tricolour, labelling it as "reactionary", [4] and made their party flag the national flag of Germany as a part of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, [1] which it remained until the end of World War II and the fall of the Third Reich.
After World War II, black-white-red was still used by some conservative groups or by groups of the far right, as it is not forbidden, unlike specific Nazi symbols such as the aforementioned swastika. Black-red-gold is the official flag of the Federal Republic of Germany.
German Flag Meaning: The German national flag was originally the flag of the NSDAP Party but became the German National flag in 1935 by the direction of Hitler. In September of that year, the position of the swastika was moved to be slightly off-center towards the flag pole.
The swastika is an ancient symbol that was in use in many different cultures for at least 5,000 years before Adolf Hitler made it the centerpiece of the Nazi flag. Its present-day use by certain extremist groups promotes hate.
Following the defeat of Imperial Germany in 1918, Germany was made a republic (1918-1933), officially called the Deutsches Reich (German Realm) and colloquially known as Weimar Republic (Weimarer Republik).
The official flag of Germany during World War II was the Nazi flag, which had a red background with a white circle in the center. Inside the white circle was a black swastika. This flag, also known as the swastika flag or the Nazi flag, was used as the national flag of Germany from 1935 to 1945.
Two flags replaced it: the black-white-red flag of the German Empire and the now-infamous flag of the Nazi Party. The Nazi flag was designed by Hitler— it kept the old colors of the German Empire flag and the black swastika was meant to represent the Aryan race. Germany in World War II
It was this design that was adopted as the national flag of Germany in 1935. In addition to this, the state arms of the Third Reich—the Hoheitsabzeichen, which displayed a wreathed swastika clutched in the talons of the Nazi eagle—always showed the symbol rotated at 45 degrees.