r/vexillology • u/kbhina • May 29 '25

Identify Help identify this flag in Germany

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Found this flag cut out sticker in the small German town of Irrel. Can someone identify this flag?

Irrel: https://maps.app.goo.gl/NgVkz7ow3FFwUmX3A?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

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u/[deleted] May 29 '25

Definitly a neo-nationalist flag and the owner was probably a fascist-sympathizer when you look at what was under this sticker. Somewhat weird to put the prussian eagle and the german tricolor together as historically those were symbolic for opposed positions but together they are defiinitly supposed to show pride in German history (even if you don't know it well yourself)

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u/JKronich May 29 '25

right ideologies have always revised history to spread their thought

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u/MartinBP May 29 '25

As did the left-wing ones.

Zhelyu Zhelev wrote a book about Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The Bulgarian Communist Party banned it because the systems of governance it described were almost identical with the communist regime.

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u/Dawid23_mapper May 30 '25

Or maybe he left-wing regime wasn't as left-wing as it claimed. No way, a country could lie about being socialist!?

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u/NewNesian Eureka • Germany (1871) May 29 '25

This brother doesn't deserve the downvotes 😔 he hates rewriting history for the left or right

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u/Suspicious_Plum_8866 May 29 '25

You gotta keep with the narrative that revisionism, zealotry, and other bad things only happen for the bad people

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u/TalknuserDK May 30 '25

You’re not wrong, but let’s be fair: revisionism to advance your own narrative is quite common. It’s just easier to call out when it’s assholes doing it.

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u/beaverbo1 May 29 '25

Every power structure in history did that.

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u/AdLopsided2075 May 29 '25

There's representing facts a little differently, wich is what a lot of countries did or are doing, and then there's book burning levels of rewriting history. Wich is what only extreme groups, like fashist, do.

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u/beaverbo1 May 30 '25

The chinese did it. The soviets did it. The romans did it. Literally every power structure tried it. And no, it wasn’t just “misrepresenting some facts a little”.

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u/AdLopsided2075 May 30 '25

"The extremist did it. The extremidz did it. The extremist did it" wow, really proving my point for me

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u/Key-Caterpillar-308 May 29 '25

and what about the commies?

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u/Kitsa_the_oatmeal May 29 '25

what about them? they're awful too but no one was talking about them lol

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u/beaverbo1 May 30 '25

They also rewrote history.

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u/Fabulous-Quit-3115 May 29 '25

The problem is that new antifa is also using symbols of communism in their protests so you cant really divide those two antifa and communism currently go hand by hand. That means that all of them are fighting bad ideology(fascism) with another bad ideology(communism) and those same people often call fascist somone that has different views from them.

Media and people are giving them support and love while they despise fascist when in reality they should not promote or love either of them and calling people fascist or nazi just because different political views is diabolical and shouldnt be normalised,but hey everyone has freedom to speak whatever they want.

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u/Kitsa_the_oatmeal May 30 '25

true, those two and anarchists. i was jus saying that was kinda sorta whataboutism

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u/theRealestMeower May 29 '25

They should, rise of far right is intrinsically tied to increasing radicalism of the left. Progressives rather.

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u/Kitsa_the_oatmeal May 30 '25

well yeah but not in this discussion

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u/AdLopsided2075 May 30 '25

"Wich is what only extreme groups... do."

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u/Key-Caterpillar-308 May 30 '25

Alright fair, you got me on that one

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