Talk:National colours of Germany

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Gunpowder, blood and glory ?!?[edit]

I heard a story that the German colours “black, red and gold” stand for “gunpowder, blood and glory”. This sounds a bit ridiculous, but it was explained to me that the German flag was based on the uniforms of the Lützow_Free_Corps . Their uniforms where allegedly black, with red collars and had golden oak-leave decorations. Therefore the martial meaning of the uniforms was transferred onto the flag. Can anyone shed some light on this matter? Is this complete non-sense, has a seed of truth in it or is it actually accurate? Just wondering!

HagenUK (talk) 09:03, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This question was also asked over at Talk:Flag of Germany, where I've responded. - 52 Pickup (deal) 09:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And? "Das ist das alte Reichspanier,

Das sind die alten Farben! Darunter haun und holen wir Uns bald wohl junge Narben! Denn erst der Anfang ist gemacht, Noch steht bevor die letzte Schlacht! Pulver ist schwarz, Blut ist rot, Golden flackert die Flamme!" - powder, blood and fire. -- 91.62.137.188 (talk) 19:11, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with File:DFB 1911.png[edit]

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WP:CFORK[edit]

There is substantial (far too much) overlap with the content at flag of Germany, this is essentially a rehash of the history of the German flag since the 1830s.

I can see a number of possible solutions, (1) merge, (2) rename the article to correspond in scope to the German de:Schwarz-Rot-Gold linked via interwiki or (3) remove all content dealing with the history of the flag and focus on referenced interpretations of the symbolism attributed to the two colour schemes, (4) make flag of Germany about the current flag and its protocol, etc., and branch out the substantial historical portion into "history of the German flag or similar, and merge this page into that. --dab (𒁳) 11:11, 21 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Communist colour[edit]

In the introduction is IMHO a mistake: The socialist and communist opposition prefered the red colour; for the social democrats black-red-gold was a compromise to integrate all democratic groups. --93.204.78.43 (talk) 21:08, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What do the three colours of Germany symbolise[edit]

To find out what the three colours of the Germany flag mean 2A00:23C7:5B0E:D401:9CE9:E8E:37C4:AB9E (talk) 20:44, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]