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The swastika was the first symbol of Nazism and remains strongly associated with it in the Western world. 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.
The esoteric insignia of the Schutzstaffel (known in German as the SS-Runen) were used from the 1920s to 1945 on Schutzstaffel (SS) flags, uniforms and other items as symbols of various aspects of Nazi ideology and Germanic mysticism. They also represented virtues seen as desirable in SS members, and were based on völkisch mystic Guido von ...
A horizontal tricolour of black, white, and red. The flag of Nazi Germany, officially the flag of the German Reich, featured a red background with a black swastika on a white disc. This flag came into use initially as the banner of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) after its foundation. Following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, this ...
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 1867–1871 and 1945. Today the term refers usually to the flag from 1867–1871 to 1918 ...
A horizontal tricolour of black, white, and red. The black-white-red flag[1] (German: Schwarz-Weiß-Rot[2]), also flag of the German Empire, or Imperial Flag, Realm Flag (German: Reichsflagge) is a combination between the flag of Prussia and the flag of the Hanseatic League. Starting as the national flag of the North German Confederation, it ...
Awards and decorations of Nazi Germany were military, political, and civilian decorations that were bestowed between 1923 and 1945, first by the Nazi Party and later the state of Nazi Germany. The first awards began in the 1920s, before the Nazis had come to national power in Germany, with the political decorations worn on Party uniforms, along ...
Schutzstaffel. SS– Gruppenführer Hans Lammers in black Allgemeine SS uniform, 1938. The uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (SS) served to distinguish its Nazi paramilitary ranks between 1925 and 1945 from the ranks of the Wehrmacht (the German armed forces from 1935), the German state, and the Nazi Party.
The position of Reichswehr Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht was held since 30 January 1933 by Werner von Blomberg. 1935. Command flag for the Reichskriegsminister and Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht. Adopted on 23 July 1935 and used until 5 October 1935. The name was changed to Reich Ministry of War on 21 May 1935. 1935–1938.