It was adopted as the national flag of the German Empire in 1892. However, when the Weimar Republic was formed in 1918, the original flag colours of 'Schwarz-Rot-Gold' came back into action and ...

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 ...

What followed was a scene many Germans thought had been confined to their history books: Hundreds of far-right activists waving the black, white and red flag of the pre-1918 German Empire that ...