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Fulmen said:
Actually the swastika is the world's oldest complex symbol, over 8500 years old, and has been used world-wide by countless civilizations often as a symbol of good fortune. Especially Asian cultures also draw the swastika as a sauvastika (left-facing), with the same meaning, but in a few cultures the sauvastika is evil while the swastika is good. It remains very widely used in Asia, and in some Western countries depending on context, but this has considerably decreased thanks to most ignorant people who believe it's exclusively a Nazi symbol.

But yeah I agree that perhaps at least the Slavic symbols are inappropriate in the flags.
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I wasn't trying to say that the swastika was only used by Nazis but that Nazis only used the swastika. They even wore it as a badge on their arms. So why should they keep the rest of the flag and just change the focal point?

Be that as it may, there won't be a swastika on the flags anyways... Nevertheless my logic applies to any other german symbol which is placed in the middle of the flag.
 
Belgium anf france are not together: pas de calais was given to belgium. north france had its own administration.
 
Grimlin said:
So why should they keep the rest of the flag and just change the focal point?

Be that as it may, there won't be a swastika on the flags anyways... Nevertheless my logic applies to any other german symbol which is placed in the middle of the flag.
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Agreed. In fact if you search Wiki you'll find out that all the Reichskommissariat flags were exactly the same as that of the Reich itself. Currently Reichskommissariats don't make much sense being puppets instead of German provinces but that's a matter for another thread (I made one about it).

Damn nazies ruining a good symbol.
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Not just the Nazis, but very largely also Allied propaganda. If you watch some of the WWII US, British, Russian and other Allied propaganda films you'll see that they depict practically everything German in the shape of a swastika (including people), sometimes even the Balkenkreuz was replaced with swastikas in these propaganda films. All that was obvious overkill and made sure that Western and Russian populations would in ignorance associate the swastika with the Nazis for generations to come.
 
JRHINDO said:
Well thanks to everyone then we cant use swastikas even if they arent nazies....
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We can't? :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Presidential_Standard_of_Finland.svg

http://www.virtualpilots.fi/feature/articles/honorable_swastika/hakahalonen.jpg

EDIT: Nah j/k, the military and the president are about it. In the civilian life there is a clear taboo because simply put people are just ignorant of the subject. Of course it depends on the individual but most of the time you don't get lucky.
 
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Fernando Torres said:
Hey did you find anyone to make the shields? :)
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Negatory, I've designed the majority of the flags (since the whole of south east queensland is flooded in) but it seems that know one has pm-ed me about working on the mod :(
I would make the flags and shields myself but I lack the know-how.
 
HMAS-Nameless said:
Negatory, I've designed the majority of the flags (since the whole of south east queensland is flooded in) but it seems that know one has pm-ed me about working on the mod :(
I would make the flags and shields myself but I lack the know-how.
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There should be a handy tool that does that for you (providing you have at least a pic of the flag) lying somewhere around someone's signature on the forums. I think I may still have it on my comp too.
 
To show this mod isn't dead Ive decided to release more of my flags. As of yet I am unable to discover how to make wavy flags (EU3-style or the same style as Darkest Hour) as well as shields and flags files as well as counters. I've decided to release all my currently finished flags in this post. If you have any knowledge in how to make my flags in "Eu3-style" shields and regular flag files and counters feel free to hop on over to that thread and contribute by posting your completed flag or shield file.

Here just some more flags that will be implemented:
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Reichskommissariat Kaukusus
The tri-colour represents the failed Transcaucasian Democratic Republic but also it includes the crescent moon and a star representing the Muslims in the kaukusus.

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Reichskommissariat Ostland
In the middle of this flag is the former flag of the United Baltic Duchy, the failed attempt in the final months of World War I to create a Germanic State in the Baltics. The cross also give homage to the Germanic Teutonic Knights. The Sword in the upper corner represents the Germanic Livonian Order which was established in modern-day latvia and estonia on which the Reichskommissariat was centered.
 
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