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Flags found in the German weekly news magazine "Der Spiegel"

2001: May

Issue 19 (May 7th)

p. 8: Inauguration of US president Bush with several US flags in background.

p. 17: Islamic fundamentalist Kaplan with a green flag with the shahada (1999 in Cologne, Germany)

p. 20: The new office of the German chancellor at Berlin, with EU flag, Berlin flag and German state flag

p. 24: EU parliament at Brussels with flags of member states

p. 32: Guest-house of the Saxon government at Dresden with vertical flags: Saxony (with arms), Germany, unknown

p. 58: Hitler 1938 (party convention at Nürnberg) with Nazi flags (hanging flags)

p. 59: German tank in Kosovo with German national flags

p. 69: Demonstration in Berlin against Neonazis displaying a "No Nazi" flags

p. 77: Hitler 1937 with a lot of Nazi flags in background

p. 78: Nazi party convention (Nürnberg 1937) with a section flag of the RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst = National Labour Service) in foreground

p. 108: Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, boss of Nestlé, with a Swiss flag in background

p. 169: NPD demonstration in Dresden (May 1st 2001) displaying black-white-red flags and a NPD flag.

p. 169: A former female right-extremist with a very simplified version of the Reichskriegsflagge (1867-1919)

p. 175: Macedonian APCs showing a tiny Macedonian flag as nationality sign

p. 176: British post robber Biggs wrapped in a Union Jack

p. 197: Wife of Swiss ambassador to Berlin with a US national flag as scarf

Issue 20 (May 14th)

p. 7: French President Chirac during a military parade in Paris: French national flags (with golden fringe) on the truck and on motorcycles.

p. 7: European Parliament in Strasbourg: EU flag and flags of the 15 member states

p. 34: Police action at a Bavarian veterinary health office: Bavarian lozenge flag

p. 62: Demonstration in Berlin of followers of the PDS and DKP (10th January 1999): flags of the PDS, the DKP and flags with the portrait of Thälmann, the KPD leader during the Weimar Republic.

p. 84: Meeting of military attachés in the German-Russian museum on occasion of the 56th anniversary of the German capitulation: flags of the four victor nations (visible only USA and France).

p. 148: German Chancellor Schröder in front of EU and German flag

p. 148: French president Chirac and prime minister Jospin during a military parade: French national flags (with golden fringe) on motorcycles.

p. 151: Meeting of EU heads of state and heads of government in Nice (Frnace) earlier this year: In the background depoictions of the national flags of the member states and one unknown flag (white Scandinavian cross on blue, some yellow device in the centre).

p. 156: Interview with EU president Prodi in his office: EU flag in background

p. 170: Nigerian ship "Etireno" (allegedly transporting child slaves) in Benin: Nigerian flag (quite dark green).

p. 194: Hitler with swastika flags (hanging variant)

Issue 21 (May 21th)

Title: Cartoon showing a black-red-gold hammock, symbolizing the laziness of the Germans

p. 8: NSDAP parade 1937 with many NSDAP standards

p. 87: Clearstream, a financial enterprise in Luxemburg: the Luxemburg flag

p. 105: Cowboy club in Sebnitz (Saxony) showing a vertical variant of the US flag

p. 122: Cutter "Hansa" with German flag (merchant ensign)

p. 136: German Marder IFVs in Kosovo (June 1999): German flag, Bavarian flag (lozenges, coat-of-arms), Thuringia flag (with coat-of-arms)

p. 136: German forces in Serbia (April 1941): Swastika flag on tank for identification by aircraft

p. 137: European conference in Biarritz (October 2000) with Schröder, Chirac, Jospin and Kostunica: EU flag and flags of some member states (Italy/France, Sweden, Belgium, Spain)

p. 140: Demonstration in the former GDR (Dresden, 1989): a large banner in black-red-gold showing the (West) German eagle, the East German coat-of-arms and part of the former GDR national anthem: "dass die Sonne schön wie nie über Deutschland scheint" ("so that the sun shall shine bright as never over Germany")

p. 140: Thatcher and Mitterrand in front of some Italian flags

p. 144: Demonstration of German Neonazis waving the black-white-red flag with a black Iron Cross (essentially the Imperial jack 1871-1919 and 1933-1935, also War Ensign 1933-1935) and the flag of the NPD.

p. 148: British prime minister Chamberlain in Munich 1938, in front of some swastika flags

p. 148: German forces in Prague (1939): swastika flags and one war ensign (hanging vertically)

p. 156/157: Followers of Italian prime minister Berlusconi during a manifestation in Rome: flags of the Forza Italia (Berlusconi's party), the Casa delle Libertà (the right-wing coalition led by Berlusconi) and some other flags, mainly unknown.

p. 166: Demonstration against the euthanasy laws in the Netherlands: a Dutch flag

Issue 22 (May 28th)

p. 42: Debate in the Bundestag (parliament): German and EU flag

p. 45: German president Rau with presidential standard

p. 49: Reichstag building in Berlin: German national flags

p. 148: Ship on Starnberger See (lake in Bavaria): national flag as civil ensign

p. 160: Jews in Auschwitz (1998): Israeli flags

p. 182: Capitol in Washington with US flag

p. 182/183: US president Bush with Senator Jeffords (former Republican, now Democrat): US flag

p. 184: Hamas demonstration in Ramallah (May 2001): green flags with white or black Shahada

p. 188: British rigth extremists with Union Jack and (probably) English flag (in background)