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The Seeburg plotting table (German: Seeburg-Tisch) was a mechanical plotting table used by Nazi Germany in their operation rooms to track aircraft and coordinate operations during World War II. It was produced by Siemens. [1] Attached to the plotting table was a Freya radar and two Würzburg-Riese radars. [2]
The Reichsadler (German pronunciation: [ˈra͜içs|aːdlɐ]; "Imperial Eagle") is the heraldic eagle, derived from the Roman eagle standard, used by the Holy Roman Emperors, later by the Emperors of Austria and in modern coat of arms of Austria and Germany. The term is also translated as "Reich's Eagle." [1] [2]
After an initial ban, the Federal Republic of Germany re-authorised the wear of many World War II military decorations in 1957. These included the Kuban Shield, re-designed by removing the eagle and swastika emblem. Members of the Bundeswehr could wear the shield on the ribbon bar, represented by a small replica of the award on a field grey ...
It is similar to the Parteiadler or Emblem of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP; known in English as the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or simply the Nazi Party), but the eagle of the latter is looking over its left shoulder, that is, looking to the right from the viewer's point of view.
The badge was designed by Otto Placzeck in Berlin. It was in either tombac or zinc and featured a ship with a large German eagle grasping a swastika on its bow. Around the circumference of the badge is a chain, through which the ship is cutting. [1] The eagle was silvered whilst the rest of the badge was a dark gray colour.
The federal assembly constitutes the old German imperial eagle with the surrounding scripture "German Confederation" and the colors of the former German imperial coat of arms – black, red, gold – to be the coat of arms and colors of the German Confederation and reserves the right, to make further decision about its use according to the ...
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The formal symbol of the party was the Parteiadler, an eagle atop a swastika. The black-white-red motif is based on the colours of the flags of the German Empire . This colour scheme was commonly associated with anti- Weimar German nationalists , following the fall of the German Empire . [ 2 ]