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{{Infobox flag
| Name = Greater Germanic Reich
| Nickname = Germanic flag, Valknut flag
| Image = Germanic-flag.png
| Use = 111111
| Symbol = {{FIAV | 110110 | 1}} {{FIAV | normal}}
| Proportion = 3:5
| Adoption = 1973
| Design = A horizontal flag consisting of a red background with a slightly off-center white disk with 4 alternating rings of white and black, with a black {{wp|valknut}} in the centre.
}}
The '''flag of the [[Germania (TheodoresTomfooleries)|Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation]]''' (see other [[#Names|names]] below) is the {{wp|national flag}} and {{wp|national ensign|ensign}} of the Greater Germanic Reich. It consists of a horizontal background of red with a slightly off-center white disk with 4 alternating rings of white and black, with a black {{wp|valknut}} in the centre. The flag is based off of the flag of the {{wp|Flag of Nazi Germany|Nazi party}} and subsequently the former Nazi flag. It replaced the old {{wp|swastika}} flag as the national flag and ensign in 1972.

== Names ==
The flag is officially referred to as the '''Flag of the [[Germania (TheodoresTomfooleries)|Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation]]''', or in short the '''Flag of the Greater Germanic Reich'''. It is also referred to by several colloquial names, including the {{wp|valknut}} flag, the Germanic flag, the German flag and also as the Nazi flag- although this is more commonly associated with the former flag of Nazi Germany and the flag of the Nazi Party- itself referred to as the {{wp|swastika}} flag.

== History ==
The design of the flag and its colors can be traced back to the rivalry between the two national colours of Germany. {{lang|de|{{wp|Flag of Germany|Schwartz-Rot-Gold}}}} (black, red and gold) were the colours of the {{wp|German revolutions of 1848-1849|1848 revolutions}} and the {{wp|Weimar Republic}} (1919-1933). The colours of black, white and red were the result of a combination of the {{wp|Flag of Prussia|flag of Prussia}} and the {{wp|Hanseatic flags|Hanseatic league}}. They were first used by the {{wp|North German Confederation}} in 1867 and later by the {{wp|German Empire}}, where they would gain an association with {{wp|German nationalism}} and {{wp|German conservatism|conservatism}}. After the fall of the German Empire in 1918 and its replacement by the Weimar Republic, the two colours became symbols of the political {{wp|Left-wing politics|left}} and the {{wp|Right-wing politics}}.

[[Adolf Hitler (TheodoresTomfooleries)|Adolf Hitler]], at the time a prominent member of the [[NSDAP (TheodoresTomfooleries)|NSDAP]], designed the predecessor of the current Germanic flag in the 1920s, revealing it at the Salzburg Conference on 7 August, 1920. The flag and its usage of the swastika would later come to be associated with Nazism as a whole. In 1933, following {{wp|Adolf Hitler's rise to power}}, a modified version of the {{wp|flag of the German Empire}} was used until 1935. An incident on the oceanliner {{wp|SS Bremen (1928|SS Bremen}} on 15 September 1935, where a group of demonstrators in {{wp|New York City}} boarded the ship and tossed the Nazi flag into the {{wp|Hudson river}} resulted in outrage from the German government and ambassador. As the Nazi flag was not official, the US government argued that a national flag had not been harmed and that only a political party's symbol had been damaged. A new law, passed during the {{wp|Nuremberg rallies}}, resulted in the flag of the German Empire being deprecated and the adoption of the Nazi Party's flag- although modified slightly from the original- as the sole national flag and ensign of Germany. 

The Nazi flag continued to be used throughout the interwar period, world war 2 and afterwards until 1973, when at the 50th {{wp|Nuremberg rallies|Reichsparteitag}} (Real Party Congress) a new design was adopted as the national flag and ensign. This new design, consisting of the original design of the flag with the inclusion of 
two rings of black and the replacement of the swastika with a valknut, would become the basis for a multitude of different redesigns of other Germanic flags, although the flag of the Nazi Part remained untouched due to interventions.

== Design ==
The Germanic constitution describes the flag as follows:
<blockquote>The flag of the Greater Germanic Reich of the German nation shall consist of a red background of a width to length ratio of 3:5. In the left-centre of the flag shall be a large white disk with two black rings within, the first large and the first thinner. In the centre is a black {{wp|valknut}}, the symbol of the Germanic ''{{wp|Volk}}'' and {{wp|Race (human categorization|race}}.</blockquote>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Colour scheme
! colspan="2" style="width:100px;"|Red
! colspan="2" style="width:100px;"|White
! colspan="2" style="width:100px;"|Black
|- align=center
| {{wp|RAL (color space system)|RAL}}
| rowspan="6" style="background:#FF0000; width:20px;"|
| 9005<br />''Traffic red''
| rowspan="6" style="background:#FFFFFF; width:20px;"|
| 3020<br />''White''
| rowspan="6" style="background:#000000 width:20px;"|
| 1021<br />''Jet black''
|- align=center
| {{wp|CMYK color model|CMYK}}
| 0,1,1,0
| 0,0,0,0
| 0,0,0,1
|- align=center
| {{wp|Pantone}} (approximation)
| 485
| Safe
| Black
|- align=center
| [[Web color|Web colour]]
| #FF0000
| #FFFFFF
| #000000
|- align=center
| Decimal [[RGB]]
| 255,0,0
| 255,0,0
| 0,0,0
|}