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Kaiserstandarte (Emperor's standard) of 1871. Gott mit uns ('God [is] with us') is a phrase commonly used in heraldry in Prussia (from 1701) and later by the German military during the periods spanning the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945) and until the 1970s on the belt buckles of the West German police forces.
Gott mit uns – meaning "God be with us", the motto of the Prussian king was used as a morale slogan amongst soldiers in both World Wars. It was bastardized as "Got mittens" by American and British soldiers, and is usually used nowadays, because of the German defeat in both wars, derisively to mean that wars are not won on religious grounds.
The Fifth day of Peace, Italian title: Gott mit uns (written in German), is an Italo-Yugoslavian war film from 1970 about the 13 May 1945 German deserter execution in a Canadian-run POW camp in Amsterdam.
Inscribed around the edge is Gott war mit uns, Ihm sei die Ehre (God was with us, to Him be the glory). The reverse shows a cross with rays between the four arms. In the center of the cross is a laurel wreath surrounding the dates 1870 and 1871.
In each of the compartments between the four arms of the cross is a red-enamelled crown surmounting the royal monogram ("W II", for Wilhelm II). The central disc on the obverse of the badge shows a golden crown with red enamel, surrounded by a blue-enamelled circular band bearing the gold-lettered motto, "Gott Mit Uns". The disc on the reverse ...
Gott mit dir, dem Bayernvolke, dass wir, unserer Väter wert, fest in Eintracht und in Frieden bauen unseres Glückes Herd! Dass mit Deutschlands Bruderstämmen einig uns der Gegner schau [Variante: Dass in Not und in Gefahren einig uns der Gegner schau] und den alten Ruhm bewähre unser Banner – weiß und blau. Gott mit ihm, dem Bayerkönig!
Gott mit uns, the historical motto used by the German military; С нами Бог! (S nami Bog!), motto used by Bulgarian Land Forces; God with Us (Don Moen album), 1993; God with Us (Laura Story album), 2015 "God with Us" (song), a 2007 song by MercyMe "God with Us", a song by Jeremy Camp from the album Christmas: God with Us, 2012
While the term Wehrmacht has been associated, both in the German and English languages, with the German armed forces of 1935–45 since the Second World War, before 1945 the term was used in the German language in a more general sense for a national defense force.