Flag of the Greater Germanic Reich (TheodoresTomfooleries)

Greater Germanic Reich

Name	Germanic flag, Valknut flag
Use	National flag and ensign
Proportion	3:5
Adopted	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 valknut in the centre.

The flag of the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (see other names below) is the national flag and 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 valknut in the centre. The flag is based off of the flag of the Nazi party and subsequently the former Nazi flag. It replaced the old swastika flag as the national flag and ensign in 1972.

Names

The flag is officially referred to as the Flag of the 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 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 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. Schwartz-Rot-Gold (black, red and gold) were the colours of the 1848 revolutions and the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). The colours of black, white and red were the result of a combination of the flag of Prussia and the Hanseatic league. They were first used by the North German Confederation in 1867 and later by the German Empire, where they would gain an association with German nationalism and 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 left and the Right-wing politics.

Adolf Hitler, at the time a prominent member of the 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 Adolf Hitler's rise to power, a modified version of the flag of the German Empire was used until 1935. An incident on the oceanliner SS Bremen on 15 September 1935, where a group of demonstrators in New York City boarded the ship and tossed the Nazi flag into the 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 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 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:

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 valknut, the symbol of the Germanic Volk and race.

Colour scheme	Red		White		Black
RAL		9005 Traffic red		3020 White		1021 Jet black
CMYK		0,1,1,0		0,0,0,0		0,0,0,1
Pantone (approximation)		485		Safe		Black
Web colour		#FF0000		#FFFFFF		#000000
Decimal RGB		255,0,0		255,0,0		0,0,0