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

2001: June

Issue 23 (June 4th)

p. 17: Bavarian prime minister Stoiber during a Bundeswehr pledge: army colours

p. 20: Christoph Daum, trainer of the Turkish football club Besiktas Istanbuk with Turkish flag

p. 77: Transport of German children from Berlin to the countryside (1940): small swastika flags

p. 82: Border post between GDR and FRG (10th November 1989): GDR coat-of-arms, German national flag and plain red flag

p. 106: Economical data in some EU countries: national flags signifying the countries

p. 106/107: Celebrating the EURO (Brussels, 31st December 1998): Caps and umbrellas with the European stars and the EURO symbol

p. 129: EU health commissioner Byrne in front of golden EU stars

p. 143: Russian tanks in Georgia with Russian national flag painted on searchlights

p. 148: Jordan king Abdullah II with wife Rania: in background the royal arms

p. 245: Manifestation in Réunion (French Department d'Outre-Mer): many French national flags

Issue 24 (June 11th)

p. 20: Diagram on Middle East politics showing a Jew and a Palestinian, the Jew wrapped in a Israeli flag

p. 33: Bavarian prime minister Stoiber in front of some flags of (probably) expellee organizations

p. 48: German Under-Secretary Tacke (Ministry for Economy) with German and EU flag in background

p. 74: Playing golf with a swan in St. Leon-Rot (May 2001): in background flag of India and Belgium

p. 93: Fall of the Mauer (November 1989) with GDR flag and plain red flags on the Brandenburger Tor

p. 104: Reichstag building in Berlin with German national flag

p. 108: European Central Bank in Frankfurt with a vertical variant of the EU flag

p. 136: Diagram of an opinion poll on President Bush's politics: background US flag

p. 138: German foreign minister Fischer with Israeli prime minister Sharon: in background the Israeli and the German flag

p. 139: German foreign minister Fischer with Jasser Arafat: table flags are German and Palestinian flag, in background the Palestinian presidential flag. A reconstruction (crude version) of the presidential flag is shown beside it.

p. 140: Palestinians demonstrating in Gaza with Palestinian flags

p. 141: Saudi crown prince Abdullah with German chancellor Schröder: in background Saudi and German national flags

p. 146: British prime minister Blair with followers waving little paper flags, mainly with the inscription "Vote Labour"

p. 146: Diagram of the results of the recent British elections with a Union Jack as background

p. 148: Brazilian president Cardoso with Brazilian national flag and presidential flag

p. 166: Russian chess player Kasparov playing against the computer "Deep Blue" (1997): Russian and US table flags

p. 168: Demonstration in 1990 against German reunification: a GDR flag is shown

p. 168/169: Celebrating the German reunification in Berlin (October 1990): many German flags are waved, in background the flags of the German Länder (including the provisional flags of the new Länder)

p. 170: European summit at Nice (December 2000): in background the flags of the participating countries

p. 170: Proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm to German emperor in Versailles (1871): military colours in the background

p. 176: Revolution in Berlin, 1918: probably plain red flags

p. 176: Revolution in Berlin, 1848: black-red-gold tricolour

p. 178: Demonstration in Dresden (1989): a sign with black-red-gold ribbon

p. 180: French, Soviet and US foreign ministers in New York (1990): in background flags of GDR, France, USSR, USA, FRG

p. 183: Hitler in Hamburg with many swastika flags in background

p. 184: Nazi judge Freisler in front of a swastika flag

p. 187: French president Chirac with German chancellor Schröder (November 2000): French military colours

p. 196: Madonna in front of a US flag