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Flag for land-based troop units or installations of the German Navy (left side) Introduced on 8 September 1936. As prescribed for all flags of the Wehrmacht, the dimensions of the flag were 126 by 126 cm. It was attached to a 3 meter long flagpole. 1936–1945: Flag for land-based troop units or installations of the German Navy (right side ...
Prince Adalbert of Prussia, the commander-in-chief of the North German Navy, was commissioned with the task of designing the new war ensign. Around 1850, he already had designed a number of potential war ensigns for a hypothetical German nation-state under Prussian rule, which never were adopted as the project was not realised at that time.
War ensign and jack (Seekriegsflagge und Gösch) of the German Navy: A swallowtail variant of the state flag 1960–1990: Naval ensign (Seekriegsflagge) of the Volksmarine: 1938–1945: Naval ensign of Kriegsmarine: 1935–1938: Naval ensign of Kriegsmarine: 1933–1935: Reich war flag (Reichskriegsflagge) and marine jack: 1921–1933: Reich ...
The Kriegsmarine (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁiːksmaˌʁiːnə], lit. ' War Navy ') was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war Reichsmarine (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic.
German Vice Admiral Günther Lütjens during World War II. The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany prior to and during World War II. Kriegsmarine uniform design followed that of the preexisting Reichsmarine, itself based on that of the First World War Kaiserliche Marine. Kriegsmarine styles of uniform and insignia had many features in ...
On 15 September 1935, one year after the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, the Nazi flag became the national flag and ensign of Germany. [1] One reason for the change may have been the " Bremen incident" of 26 July 1935, in which a group of demonstrators in New York City boarded the ocean liner SS Bremen , tore the Nazi Party flag ...
The Vorläufige Reichsmarine (lit. ' Provisional Reich Navy ') was formed after the end of World War I from the Imperial German Navy. The provisions of the Treaty of Versailles restricted the German Navy to 15,000 men and no submarines, while the fleet was limited to six pre-dreadnought battleships, six light cruisers, twelve destroyers, and twelve torpedo boats.
Nazi memorabilia includes a variety of objects from the material culture of Nazi Germany, especially those featuring swastikas and other Nazi symbolism and imagery or connected to Nazi propaganda. Examples are military and paramilitary uniforms, insignia, coins and banknotes, medals, flags, daggers, guns, posters, contemporary photos, books ...