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Germany - Third Reich

by Zeljko Heimer, 1996-06-23

German Nazi Flags

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German Nazi flags

The jack is the familiar Nazi flag.

by Zeljko Heimer, 1996-06-23

The ensign is similar to the previous naval flag, it has the cross and center circle, but the field is red, in the circle there is a swastika, and in the canton there is a slightly smaller Iron Cross without any stripes.

Nathan Augustine 1995-12-05

The Nazist flag is red white and black. The colours were those of the Hohenzollern Reich, and before that the Prussian-dominated North German Confederation. They combined the black over white of Prussia and the red and white of the Hanseatic League (see also the red and white flags of the modern states of Bremen and Hamburg).

The Nazis reinstated the "schwarz-weiss-rot" flag when they came to power in 1933 - the black-red-gold of the Weimar Republic (and modern-day Germany) being associated by the right-wingers with Germany's defeat in 1918. However the swastika "Party Flag" was flown alongside it, including on merchant ships where it flew from the starboard yard-arm. In 1935 anti-Nazi activists boarded a German ship in New York harbour and tore down the Swastika flag. The American authorities refused to take any action on the grounds that only a political flag had been tampered with, not the national colours. The Reichstag subsequently unanimously (now *there's* a surprise) declared the swastika flag the national flag of Germany in September 1935.

Roy Stilling 1996-04-09

The national flag and the merchant ensign were both the black-white-red tricolour at first (1933-1935), then the red flag with the white disk containing the "hakenkreuz" which from 1935 to 1945 fulfilled these functions.
Pascal Vagnat, 1996-09-04

The naval ensign was red with a black nearly Scandinavian cross fimbriated white and black, with a white disc fimbriated black-white-black containing the "hakenkreuz" (1935-1945).

The standard of the Reichspresident was gold fimbriated red-white-black with an eagle in the centre.
Pascal Vagnat, 1996-09-04

Another Third Reich Flag

by Jaume Oll� 1996-07-19

This flag is bordered black and white, background red, cross black and white, with circle black and white in centre with the nazi cross. In quarters 1 and 4 the iron cross; in quarters 2 and 3 the nazi eagle with the nazi cross on its legs. Ratio 1:1. Source: 1936 book, "Alemania" (it is in black and white, but I think the colours are correct).
Jaume Oll� 1996-07-19