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Wirmer flags at a Pegida demonstration in Dresden (April 2015) In 1999, Reinhold Oberlercher, as the thought leader of the neo-Nazi German College, with which the right-wing extremists Horst Mahler and Uwe Meenen are affiliated, proclaimed the Wirmer flag as the possible national flag of the "Fourth Reich" they aspire to. Through Horst Mahler ...
Some commentators in Europe have used the term "Fourth Reich" to point at the influence that they believe Germany exerts within the European Union. [2] [11] [12] For example, Simon Heffer wrote in the Daily Mail that Germany's economic power, further boosted by the European financial crisis, is the "economic colonisation of Europe by stealth", whereby Berlin is using economic pressure rather ...
Merchant flag of German Reich variant with the Iron Cross: 1933–1935: Merchant flag of German Reich (Handelsflagge) A red field, with a white disc with a black swastika at a 45-degree angle. Disc and swastika are exactly in the centre. [citation needed] 1933–1935: Merchant flag of German Reich variant with the Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz ...
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: Command flag for the Reichskriegsminister and Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht: Adopted on 5 October 1935 and used until 4 ...
From September 2020, the public display of all versions of the war flags of the North German Confederation and of all periods of the German Reich became prohibited in the state of Bremen and violators can be fined up to €1,000; the black, white and red tricolour of the German Reich can be confiscated as well if there is a concrete provocation ...
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.
The flag of Nazi Germany, officially called the Reich and National Flag (German: Reichs- und Nationalflagge [1]), featured a red background with a black swastika on a white disk. This flag came into use initially as the banner of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party, after its foundation in 1920 ...
The Reich service flag was used by all state authorities, such as the Reichsbahn, Reichsautobahn, and Reichsbank. In the navy, the Reich service flag was carried by all state-owned vessels that were not allowed to hoist the Reichskriegsflagge. In the case of the absence of the Reich service flag, the national and merchant flag had to be flown ...