Germany's chancellor supported the move not to fly the rainbow flag on the Reichstag building, saying "the Bundestag is not a circus tent." Meanwhile, Germans try to keep cool amid heatwave conditions ...

In 1919, the National Assembly, which met in Weimar after the collapse of the German Empire, again designated black-red-gold as the flag of the newly founded Weimar Republic.. This was preceded by ...

Instead, the swastika flag became the national symbol." The German national colors first appeared as a combination in the 1813-1815 "Wars of Liberation" against Napoleon.

Germany's soccer team meets Argentina Saturday in a much-anticipated World Cup quarterfinal match, and fans are fired up. But fervent flag-waving and other displays of nationalism are not sitting ...

Burn a flag in Germany, go to jail. On Thursday, the nation’s federal parliament, the Bundestag, voted in favor of making the deliberate act of burning the European Union flag — or any … ...

Power to alter this national flag is not vested in the President, even by Article 48 which permits him to invoke many extraordinary powers. Therefore last week Old Paul broke his oath and violated ...