Flag of Germany

The flag of Germany is a tricolor, consisting of three equal horizontal bands colored (from top to bottom) black, red, and gold.The current flag, first used in the 1848 revolution, was adopted in its present form on 11 August 1919 in the constitution of the Weimar Republic. The flag was scrapped when the Nazi party came to power in 1933, only to be reinstated in 1949 separately by the two newly-formed German states. The flags of both West and East Germany were identical until 1959 when socialist symbols were added to the flag of the German Democratic Republic, and the East German flag remained that way until the dissolution of the GDR in 1990. Following the reunification of Germany on 1990-10-03, the black-red-gold tricolour continued to be used as the flag of the united German nation.
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