Why don't Germans use their own flag anymore?

Why don't Germans use their own flag anymore?

this was the very first flag of a unified German Confederation. The flag you posted is the flag of the north German confederation.

The current flag is the result of the liberal revolution in the 1848, where Austria was still included. If you accept that flag as your own you should submit yourself to the Habsburgs and liberals as well.

I like the nordic cross design

The current flag is the result of the rise of nationalism in europe after Napoleons conquests. It symbolizes a union of all German people. Austrians are Germans too.

They offered the Emperors throne to the Prussian King
Shitty meme flag

The old one is hanseatic cities plus Prussia, not all of Germany

They are an occupied satellite state

The current one is better looking in my opinion, what makes me sad is that the old german empire flags and battle flags triggers modern germans

they are pre-nazi makes no sense

One of the reasons Germans shouldn't use the Schwarz-Rot-Gold in my opinion is because Austria is unlikely to ever unite with Germany again. The current flag is invented by liberals in the German Bund who supported the Großdeutsche Lösung. Black white red on the other hand was the first flag that was associated with the German nation state that continues to exist today

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Because it is abused by Nazis in lieu of prohibited Nazi imagery, similar to the Prinsenvlag.

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How?
If the German Empire was dissolved far before Nazi Germany, if anything your current flag is same as the Weimar Republic, the one who elected the nazis

Why Austria doesn't hold a referendum to unify with Germany. I find it so odd that it's never been done

The same confederate flag problem
Radicals turned then in a hate icon

they had their own history and don't like to see their country as irrelevant Bundestaat

Not really

Austria has nothing to do with the flag, just stop

Make the Naval Flag the country flag

Can you really be classed as a proper country if your flag does not have a cross on it? Almost certainly not.

not today!

German neonazis use the imperial flag because the swastika is banned

Because it is the flag of the good times and shouldn't be stained by association with the BRD-GmbH

Because Germany is an American puppet state

that simply is not the case

kek you misspelled i think you ment to write israel instead of germany

this

embarrassing

yeah it's pretty bad to be occupied by a shit country like the us. maybe one day china can take over.

Because Hitler made sure to forever brand pan-Germanism as something evil.

that's like me killing you and then saying you made sure to not live anymore

It's backwards.

it's embarrassing for you and all associated that you express those opinions and beliefs

No, that's what you get when your country is ruled by homicidal maniacs. Nazis being evil is not a nuanced thing but straightforward historical fact.

Unless you're a white supremacist but then by all objective measures you've gone irredeemable evil yourself.

Associated with conservatism and monarchism, then neo-nazi retards started using it even though it has nothing to do with their shit-tier "ideology". The new flag was a symbol of 1800s nationalist liberal revolution and so it's more fitting for the Weimer Republic and contemporary Germany

>Black white red on the other hand was the first flag that was associated with the German nation state that continues to exist today
I think you answered your own question