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| | Germany Flag |
 | | When the Nazis came to power in 1933 the fl-red-gold flag was entirely removed and replaced with the fl-white-red, though they would eventually, on September 15, 1935, replace virtually all German governmental flags with designs based on the swastika flag that had been their party flag. |
 | | The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) had initially used the same flag, but on October 1, 1959 it introduced a communist emblem to the centre of the flag: a hammer (symbolizing the workers), and a pair of compasses (symbolizing the intellectuals) inside ears of grain (symbolizing the farmers). |
 | | The flag of the GDR was banned, and any use of it considered a criminal offence, in West Germany during much of the Cold War. |
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