West Germany adopts the Black-White-Red flag

This may be a minor change in history but what impact would it have? What would be the flag of unified Germany?What flag would Neo-Nazis fly?
 
I think this is pretty much ASB. Even if for some reason Germany had wanted to adopt the old black-white-red flag - and I can't see why it would in a million years, since even at that point it was associated with militarism and the far-right (it was the flag that the Nazis had adopted as a stop-gap between the abandonment of the republican flag and the use of the swastika as the national flag, for instance) - then there's no way the Allies would have accepted it.
 
Its a two flags thingy

The Red White and Black is the flag of the Empire, Prussian central control and finally Nazism.

The black red and gold was the flag of the 1848 liberal revolution. Associated with a decentralised state, liberal democracy and so on.

So can imagine why both West and East Germany (both trying to distance themselves from Nazism) opted for the Black Red Gold.
 

Susano

Banned
I wouldnt overdemonise the Black-White_Red. Yes, the Nazis used it for atime as a secondary flag (never as the single national flag, though - for a time, Germany did have two flags), but that was merely a cocnession to the conservative forces and scrapped as soon as the Nazis felt confident enough. Mainly, Black-White-Red is the flag of the Kaiserreich and German reactionary forces.

However, it indeed cannot compare to Black-Red-Gold. Its kinda ironic, because Black-Red-Gold IS accepted as the flag of German democracy by both sides, by the democrats themselves and the reactionaires sneering at democracy. That is why the Weimar reactionaries wanted to get rid of it, because it stood for a democratic republic, a state structure they abhorred. So, thus universally regogniced as flag of German democracy, there indeed was little alternative to it.
 
I think this is pretty much ASB. Even if for some reason Germany had wanted to adopt the old black-white-red flag - and I can't see why it would in a million years, since even at that point it was associated with militarism and the far-right (it was the flag that the Nazis had adopted as a stop-gap between the abandonment of the republican flag and the use of the swastika as the national flag, for instance) - then there's no way the Allies would have accepted it.

It was a proposal in OTL, along with a bunch of others. The Free German Commitee proposal of 1944 was the black white red flag, so it would not be that ASB.
 

Susano

Banned
It was a proposal in OTL, along with a bunch of others. The Free German Commitee proposal of 1944 was the black white red flag, so it would not be that ASB.

Yes, but then the FGC mostly did consist of conservative to reactionary forces, IIRC, hence its ideologcially baised choice. Im aware Black-White-Red was considered, but it just didnt have much chance.
 
Unless WWII goes differently, say military coup overthrows the Nazis leading to a conservative junta government AND Allied-Soviet relations are far worse ITTL so the West accepts the new state of things the old Kaiser flag will not be accepted.
 
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