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Obviously a German flag, but is it a nazi flag?
Best picture I could get as I was driving. I looked online as I thought it might be a WW1 era German flag, but I didn’t find match. Is it possible it’s a nazi flag?
It's one of those "technically not a Nazi flag" flags that are used exclusively by, you guessed it, Nazis.
Hard to tell exactly which branch, but looks like one of the war flags used by the Heer/Luftwaffe/Kreigsmarine between 1935 and 1945, but with the swastika replaced by the German Imperial Eagle. Swapping in the eagle or Iron Cross is a common way for fascists to get around bans on swastikas or say "No see we don't have that we are wanting to bring back Imperial Germany!"
Since someone else said the name, the character is GI robot who is basically a cute robot programmed to kill Nazis. Even after WW2 is long he still just wants to find Nazis to kill and is disappointed whenever he can’t find any
This is not an official Nazi flag, but rather the Nazi war flag with the swastika swapped for a Prussian eagle. Clearly meant to be a Nazi flag but without being super explicit.
To all the commenters saying that it’s a pre Nazi reichskriegsflagge, Wikipedia has a helpful list of all reichkriegsflaages. It is not there. I would however be happy to be proven wrong.
To all the people saying that it’s “just history” and not a dogwhistle, you are wrong. If you genuinely think that then you are either naive and sheltered or you are yourself dog whistling.
Swap out the word ' white' in supremacy to any other color and this statement still holds true. Racial supremacy in general is a stupid, invalid concept.
Some think insults to another racial community hides their racism and makes them fit in with the 'popular' opinion. But in fact it highlights it.
When a guy claims to not be a Nazi by saying he's a monarchist, before describing his ideal kaiser to be exactly like the Fuehrer (without asking him to because you could already tell.)
Hitler himself didn't like the Kaiser, blaming him for WWI loss.
However, when Kaiser died in German occupied Netherlands in 1941, Hitler wanted to give him a state funeral in Berlin (for propaganda purposes), but Kaiser didn't want to go back to Germany unless the monarchy is restored. He was buried in a small ceremony attended by Nazi officials in the Netherlands, including the Reichkomissar, and against his wishes of not displaying Nazi regalia, which displayed during the ceremony.
The "Confederate flag" is close to the second navy jack of the CSA. But it's more accurate to say that both are the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia (aka the CSA Battle Flag) stretched out.
Wasn’t the Kriegsflagge usually on a white background before the Nazi regime though? The red definitely makes it look more like a very clearly audible dog whistle.
Yeah as more knowledgeable people than me have pointed out elsewhere in this thread it appears that this particular combo never actually existed in Germany, it’s just a combo of the old Kriegsflagge with the Nazi colours to make a Nazi lite flag.
German guy here: While I dont know this specific flag it is safe to assume that any German flag with the red-white-black color scheme is either nazi or nazi light.
I once watched an interview with a young man from Kiel (city in northern Germany) who was proud to be a national socialist and asked about his opinion to something Neo-Nazis had done (planted a bomb or something).
And he kind of said “I want the Nazi rule to return in Germany. But this is not the way to do it. This [bomb] is simply stupidity. I am a Nazi by conviction. But I am not an idiot to believe I can reach my goal through terrorism.”
I do not like his conviction. But I liked the honesty of him.
ehhh don’t be fooled, he either doesn’t know what Nazis are and want to do, or he is laundering his opinions to seem more honest and respectable than he is.
So he is either terribly confused and hurting people in the process, or he is strategically advancing his political agenda; it’d be foolish to advocate for terrorism against Germans on German public television, it’d be hard to find someone sense enough to do that.
Other german guy here: if it is red-white-black it is either a nazi flag, a nazi-ish flag or a imperial flag, which in germany also lables you at least as a far right person and nazi-sympathizer which is understandable given germanys imperial history and imperial ambitions back in the day
Edit: there is also the red-white-black naval flag of the weimar republic, but it has a little black-red-gold flag up in the left corner
Legality is not an issue here (seems to be in New York state somewhere) . We've got free speech. But besides being a Nazi idiot he's also a coward for altering the flag so his allegiance is not immediately known. They used to be a nightmare, now they are a bunch of circus clown. It's so pathetic it's almost sad again. Almost.
Even altered symbols are banned, if they exert the same effect. Additionally even the legal imperial war flag can be confiscated, if used for public endangerment.
It was meant to be a litmus test. I understand Germany has very strict laws about this kinda thing. If it's illegal in Germany, it's definitely nazi symbolism.
All official symbols of the NSDAP are banned from public use in Germany, with exceptions allowed only for clearly defined historical, educational, or artistic purposes.
Kinda. The Reichskriegsflagge of Nazi Germany would be really illegal, the Reichskriegsflagge of the Weimar republic and the Kaiser on its own would not be, unless in combination with anything else that makes it Nazi related, like carrying it around at a WW2 Memorial Site.
However, this is neither. This is the illegal 3rd Reich one, but the Swastika is replaced with the Prussian eagle as would be the case in the WW1/Kaiser one.
The North German Confederation/German Reich/Weimar Republic one is always a black cross on white background, never red, so that excuse is also off the table.
So I think it's safe to say they would most likely confiscate it and still charge anyone carrying that around as if it were the Nazi times Reichskriegsflagge.
This is a Nazi flag for people who are too scared to fly one with a swastika. That mostly red colour scheme is not Imperial German, but Third Reich. They just removed the swastika and replaced it with an Imperial German/Prussian eagle.
And by the way, even actual Imperial German flags are kinda sus, because they're often misused by far-right types for similar reasons: you want to fly a Nazi flag, but are scared to, so you settle for the flag of another (but slightly less despised) right-wing authoritarian German regime to signal that you politically lean in that direction without being as overt.
And I think, maybe we should help them out? Go up and put an actual Nazi flag up in the middle of the night to let their neighbors know?
That would be illegal. But a legal option would be to stand out front of their house on the public right of way with a sign that says "Yes, indeed, that is a Nazi flag for anybody wondering."
God I hate that every symbol of my ansestors Country got pirated and corrupted by those shitheads. And now they are trying to become a big influence again… Its so frustraiting
There was a girl who caught wind that my grandparents were German immigrants, and she began taking about Nordic shit, like a lot. I told her to stop and she was like, "but you're German, don't you like this stuff?" I was like that ain't my people, that's Nazi appropriation. The shock on her face was pretty good. You would think a Jewish person would try to understand the difference.
The license plate on the car indicates this is located in the US. America does not ban Nazi symbolism due to the First Amendment protection of political speech. The person flying the flag just wants to avoid the social consequences of flying a swastika (or less likely, believes this to just be an Imperial flag.)
It's "not a nazi" flag. It's a combination of Imperial and Nazi German iconography used by neo Nazis, Nazi fanatics, Weraboos, whatever you want to call them. The use of the actual German flag alongside it makes me think this is an American neo Nazi, who has maybe 12% German heritage, desperately keen to express their views while trying their best to make it seem like an innocent interest in military history.
It goes beyond that, judging from the text you can see on the flag it's actually the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Flag, which stands for liberal democracy even more explicitly than the normal federal flag
It's as good as damnit a Nazi flag. That specific version of the reichskreigsflagge (though with a swastika rahter than an eagle) was personally designed by hitler.
The only reason this one doesn't have a swastika is because like all neo nazis, it's owner is a coward.
Greetings from Eastern Gernany. This is not a "real" nazi flag but is 1000% intended to offend and be seen as such. No doubt whatsoever. If the flag was in a SpiegelTV documentary at any point - it's problematic. Simple
It’s a the Nazi naval flag, they just swapped the swastika for the Prussian eagle. It’s very likely they’re Nazis and they just did that to make the flag technically legal.
I don't think it's an actual historic flag. It seems to combind the Nazi's Naval ensign of Kriegsmarine .svg)(naval unit) with the Prussian Imperial flags. So it's basically a nazi flag that swapped the swastika with the eagle. Common thing to do among Neo-Nazis in Germany because it is prohibited to show a swastika.
I'm confused because right next to that Nazi flag is what I believe to be a Reichsbanner flag. The Social-Democratic, anti-Nazi/Communist German paramilitary. You can even see the little "Einingfeit und" on it.
What part of the country is this from? This guy is literally flying a nazi adjacent flag in front of his house declaring to the neighborhood that he thinks all the Americans who fought and died in the Second World War were wrong to do so.
Its the nazi war flag but they didnt want to be shamed as nazis so they changed the swastika for the prussian eagle so when they get confronted they can use the shitty attempt of an excuse of the prussian eagle to say they are not nazis, that or they live in a country that outright bans the nazi flag so that's the best thing they can get
As a German, the most ridiculous about this photo is that he is also flying the (current) flag of the federal republic of Germany, and as it seems even with the first line of the German anthem "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" which translates to "unity and righteousness and freedom". This flag and anthem stand for the opposite values than that ugly ass flag and probably the asshole flying it.
It is the Warflag of the third Reich with the swastika swapped for an eagle. This flag never existed in history but we all know what it supposed to mean withoud showing any evil symbol.
There you have an asshole that´s too afraid to show that he´s and asshole.
Please do me a favor and leave a big fat steaming sticky dump on this porch.
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u/Hikinghawk Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
It's one of those "technically not a Nazi flag" flags that are used exclusively by, you guessed it, Nazis.
Hard to tell exactly which branch, but looks like one of the war flags used by the Heer/Luftwaffe/Kreigsmarine between 1935 and 1945, but with the swastika replaced by the German Imperial Eagle. Swapping in the eagle or Iron Cross is a common way for fascists to get around bans on swastikas or say "No see we don't have that we are wanting to bring back Imperial Germany!"