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  2. List of German flags - Wikipedia

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    Merchant flag of German Reich variant with the Iron Cross: 1933–1935: Merchant flag of German Reich (Handelsflagge) A red field, with a white disc with a black swastika at a 45-degree angle. Disc and swastika are exactly in the centre. [citation needed] 1933–1935: Merchant flag of German Reich variant with the Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz ...

  3. Reichskriegsflagge - Wikipedia

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    ' 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.

  4. Flag of the German Empire - Wikipedia

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    A variation of armband design used by the National Committee for a Free Germany. During World War II, German prisoners of war who had defected to the Soviet Union and German exiles in the Soviet Union, mainly the members of the Communist Party of Germany, formed the National Committee for a Free Germany, an anti-fascist military and political ...

  5. German colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    The publication of edited volumes on the themes of colonialism (2012) and German Colonial History (2019) by the Federal Agency for Civic Education aimed to bring about "revived awareness of colonialism in political, legal, and psychological spheres" to a wider group of readers and scholars, as the editor Asiye Öztürk put it.

  6. German Empire - Wikipedia

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    The historiographical concept of a German Sonderweg has had a turbulent history. 19th-century scholars who emphasised a separate German path to modernity saw it as a positive factor that differentiated Germany from the "western path" typified by Great Britain. They stressed the strong bureaucratic state, reforms initiated by Bismarck and other ...

  7. German New Guinea - Wikipedia

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    German colonies in the Pacific, with German New Guinea in brown Hoisting of the German flag at Mioko in 1884 By the German–Spanish Treaty of 1899 , Germany bought from Spain the Caroline Islands and the Mariana Islands (excluding Guam , which had been ceded to the US after the 1898 Spanish–American War ) for 25 million pesetas (equivalent ...

  8. Orders, decorations, and medals of the German Empire

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    German decorations of the First World War were those medals, ribbons, and other decorations bestowed upon German soldiers, sailors, pilots and also for civilians, during the First World War. These special awards were awarded by both Imperial Germany and various German Kingdoms and other states and city-states of the Reich.

  9. List of flags of the Wehrmacht and Heer (1933–1945) - Wikipedia

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    When Adolf Hitler made himself Commander-in-Chief of the Army, in 19 December 1941. The flag was thus no longer used, and was replaced by the Hitler's personal standard (see above). 1944–1945: Flag for the Chief of the OKH General Staffs: The flag was introduced on 1 September 1944 and used until shortly before the end of the war.