Alternate symbol for Nazi German.

nova2010

Banned
The most obvious the eagle

German_Eagle_by_GifHaas.jpg
 
Through the history German eagle was gradually lowering the wings and getting fatter so that now resembles a hen more than an eagle......
 
I tend to agree with those who indicate a stylized eagle, perhaps grasping the letters "NSDP" would be an obvious emblem, but any bold and striking runic/pagan symbol might do. Colors would obviously be red-white-black. Nazis would not simply return to the old Imperial imagery because they were a radical, populist, movement very much opposed to restoration of the monarchy or the old aristocratic elites.

This raises to some extent what might have happened if Hitler, with his flair for the dramatic, did not assume control of the Party. Perhaps a "hitler-less" Nazi Germany would simply use the old national B-W-R tricolor flag.
 
A Hitlerless Nazi Germany wouldn't be "Nazi", even if it was fascist and even if that fascist ideology had many of Nazism's distinguishing marks (and there were plenty of other intellectual strains on the German right). "Nazism" was an ideology constructed around Hitler-worship.
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
I tend to agree with those who indicate a stylized eagle, perhaps grasping the letters "NSDP" would be an obvious emblem, but any bold and striking runic/pagan symbol might do. Colors would obviously be red-white-black. Nazis would not simply return to the old Imperial imagery because they were a radical, populist, movement very much opposed to restoration of the monarchy or the old aristocratic elites.

This raises to some extent what might have happened if Hitler, with his flair for the dramatic, did not assume control of the Party. Perhaps a "hitler-less" Nazi Germany would simply use the old national B-W-R tricolor flag.
I doubt that quite a bit since even German fascists shared the Nazis' anti-monarchism, though I could see the old imperial flag being used if a symbol is superimposed upon it. Again, either the eagle or the cross pattée would, IMO, be the most likely symbols. Some modified version of the Reichskriegsflagge would also be a good candidate.
A Hitlerless Nazi Germany wouldn't be "Nazi", even if it was fascist and even if that fascist ideology had many of Nazism's distinguishing marks (and there were plenty of other intellectual strains on the German right). "Nazism" was an ideology constructed around Hitler-worship.
Quite right, my good man.
 
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