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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.
General Helmut Wolf (ヘルムート・ヴォルフ, Herumūto Vorufu) is an old soldier who was first to find the twins, gave Johan his name (the name of the boy in the picture book entitled The Monster without a Name) and sent him to 511 Kinderheim. Although a member of the right-wing organization whose goal is to make Johan the leader of ...
Symbol Name Meaning Comments Wolfsangel: Liberty and independence The Wolfsangel ('wolf hook') was used as a heraldic symbol alluding to a wolf trap, and is still found on the municipal arms of a number of German towns and cities. It was adopted by a fifteenth-century peasants' uprising, thus acquiring an association with liberty and independence.
Although used for the first time as a symbol of international antisemitism by far-right Romanian politician A. C. Cuza prior to World War I, [20] [21] [22] it was a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck for most of the Western world until the 1930s, [2] when the German Nazi Party adopted the swastika as an emblem of the Aryan race.
Promotional image for the anime series featuring Kenzo Tenma and a partially-shadowed Johan Liebert. The Monster anime series adapts Naoki Urasawa 's manga of the same name . The 74-episode series was created by Madhouse and broadcast on Nippon Television from April 7, 2004, to September 28, 2005.
Following the trail to the construction site of a half-finished building near the hospital, Tenma finds Junkers held at gunpoint. Junkers warns him against coming closer and pleads with him to run away. Tenma refuses, and the man holding the gun is revealed to be Johan Liebert. Despite Tenma's attempts to reason with him, Johan shoots Junkers.
The common nickname of Sepp in German for Josef, for such Nazis as Josef Dietrich and Josef Oberhauser, is excluded from this list. The definite article "the" has been removed from the nicknames for the purposes of sorting properly.
Today, the Nazi flag remains in common use by neo-Nazi supporters and sympathisers, outside Germany, while within the country, neo-Nazis use the Fatherland Flag from the German Empire instead, due to ban on the Nazi flag use. However, the imperial flag did not originally have any racist or anti-Semitic meaning.