| Today, the Nazi flag remains in common use by supporters and sympathisers | , in his book , stated that: "in only two other designs did he Adolf Hitler execute the same care as he did : that of the and his own ", showing that Hitler was an avid flag designer |
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| " The swastika was probably taken from the symbology of Thule-Gesellschaft, a Munich based group to which the early Nazi party had close bonds | Hitler added new symbolism to the colours, stating that "[t]he red expressed the social thought underlying the movement |
Nazi had a image, so the "left-facing" and "right-facing" version were each present on one side.
| " — Adolf Hitler, 1925 After on 30 January 1933, the black-red-gold tricolour flag was discarded; a ruling on 12 March established two legal national flags: the reintroduced black-white-red imperial tricolour and the flag of the Nazi Party | There is debate as to whether the off-centred disk flag was the official national flag from 1935 to 1945, such as at the popular vexillogy site, |
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| One book published by the Third Reich in 1937, Du bist Sofort im Bilde 'You Are Informed Immediately', a guide book to the organization of the Third Reich displays a centred-disk German flag as Germany's national flag | After rejecting many suggestions and colours, the process of choosing a new flag: "I myself, meanwhile, after innumerable attempts, had laid down a final form; a flag with a red background, a white disk, and a black swastika in the middle |
From 1933 to at least 1938 in Nazi Germany, before any official swastika flag went into use, it had to be put into a ceremony where it touched the " " or Blood flag, the swastika flag used by Nazi paramilitaries during the failed in 1923.
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