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Flag Dates Designation Description 1933–1935: Flag for the Supreme Commander of the Army: Used between February 1934 and June 1935 with the designation Flag of the Chief of the Army Command. The position of Commander-in-Chief of the Army was held from 1932 to 1938 by Werner von Fritsch. 1935–1941: Flag for the Supreme Commander of the Army
The flag with the swastika and white disc centered was used throughout (1920–1945) as the NSDAP flag (Parteiflagge). [2] Between 1933 and 1935, it was used as the mandotary party flag with the national black-white-red horizontal tricolour last used (up to 1918) by the German Empire .
The flag of Nazi Germany, officially called the Reich and National Flag (German: Reichs- und Nationalflagge [1]), featured a red background with a black swastika on a white disk. This flag came into use initially as the banner of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party, after its foundation in 1920 ...
New recruits in the latter part of World War II were sworn in on this flag (one recruit holding the flag and taking the oath on behalf of the entire recruit class with the recruits looking on as witnesses – before, this was done on the regimental colours). [citation needed] British naval officers with a seized Reichskriegsflagge, 1944
A service flag or service banner is a banner that family members of those serving in the United States Armed Forces can display. The flag or banner is officially defined as a white field with a red border, with a blue star for each family member serving in the Armed Forces of the United States during any period of war or hostilities.
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 organization which sought to overthrow the Nazi regime and aided the Red Army in ...
The origin of flags is unknown. Some of the earliest known banners come from ancient China to identify different parts of the army. [3] For example, it is recorded that the armies of the Zhou dynasty in the 11th century BC carried a white banner before them, although no extant depictions exist of these banners.
Flag of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany during the First Italian Independence War: The flag bears the coat of arms of the Habsburg-Lorraine family, decorated with Italian tricolours; note, however, that the coat of arms bears the red-white-red flag of Austria, the opponent of Italian unification. 1848/1849 Flag of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies