Aug 31, 2020 · Indeed, the horizontal black-white-red flag was first widely used in the North German Confederation (post-1866) and subsequently as a flag of the (second) German Empire 1871–1918. In addition to the plain tricolor, a number of other flags based on it or using it in part were used for various other uses such by the army or at sea.

The current flag (black-red-gold) was also in use in the Weimar Republic, when the Nazis came to power, they replaced the flag first with the old flag of the German Reich (black-white-red), and then they made the infamous swastika flag the official flag. –

Feb 19, 2017 · So now the Neo-Nazi movements and parties show the imperial war ensign (Military Flag of the German Empire of 1871-1918) or the normal Flag of the German Empire from 1871-1918 or - ironic and even more ridicolous - the Wirmer-Flag which was designed by one of the people instigating the resistance of the german military against Hilter during the ...

Oct 17, 2020 · As Wikipedia’s list of German flags shows, three German states (Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland) use a black-red-gold flag with their state coats-of-arms on top (Rhineland-Palatinate in the canton, the others in the centre). But more importantly and controversially, the flag of the GDR was also black-red-gold but including ...

Mar 11, 2022 · At pro-Russian demonstrations ... in different cities the modern day Russian flag, while popular, always takes a clear second place to the flags of the USSR and of the Russian Empire before it. The yearning for a vague idea of “glory” that will come with being part of a greater Russian “whole” runs through everything.

Nov 8, 2019 · In German political speech, multi-party (three or more party) coalitions are sometimes described by vexillological analogy:: I have seen: Jamaica coalition between conservatives (black), liberals (

On November 06, 2024, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister, effectively ending the coalition with the latter's party and thus losing the support of a majority in parliament, but announced he would not resign and only put forward a motion of confidence, required for dissolving parliament and scheduling a new election, in ...

Left-wing equivalents include the DDR flag in Germany and the hammer-and-sickle in Russia. I'm curious as to whether the flag of the Habsburg empire has any similar connotations in contemporary Austria, or indeed Hungary. Would most contemporary citizens of Austria interpret a person flying this flag as having a particular viewpoint?

A curiosity is Alsace-Moselle (the region in the east of France that was German between 1871 and 1918). It still retains a number of specific laws (“droit local”) enacted by the German Empire and never abolished in France, including a provision punishing “blasphemy” (see franceinfo.fr and lalsace.fr). This law is still on the books but ...

Mar 1, 2021 · What is the blue-white-blue horizontal triband flag waved by karateka Sandra Sánchez at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics? 9 What, if anything, does a blue-and-white American flag mean?