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When the German ambassador protested, US officials responded that the swastika was not the German national flag (unlike the black-white-red tricolour) and therefore the perpetrators could not be criminally prosecuted and punished due to the absence of elements of crime, as the German national flag had not been harmed, but only a political party ...
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. In 1935, the black-white-red horizontal tricolour was scrapped again, and the flag with the off-centre swastika and disc was instituted as the only national flag (and was to remain as ...
The 20th-century German Nazi Party made extensive use of graphic symbols, especially the swastika, notably in the form of the swastika flag, which became the co-national flag of Nazi Germany in 1933, and the sole national flag in 1935. A very similar flag had represented the Party beginning in 1920.
Along with this flag, the swastika flag of the Nazi Party was ordered to be flown. 3:5 National flag, ensign and naval jack of Nazi Germany (1935–1945). An alternate centre-disc version was the flag of the Nazi Party (1920–1945) and flown jointly with the tricolour national flag (1933–1935).
German, Prussian, and Austrian war ensigns, including those called "Reichskriegsflagge " The term Reichskriegsflagge (German: [ˈʁaɪçsˌkʁiːksflaɡə], lit. ' 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 ...
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
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]
Alongside the swastika flag of the Nazi Party, the imperial colours were restored as a provisional national symbol, subject to a final decision by the German government. The concurrent Nazi flag also used a combination of black, white, and red colours, but not in the same way as the old flag of the German Empire. Instead, red was the dominant ...