Flag of the German Christians

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The "Flag of the German Christians" from 1934 is one of the major arguments of "NS Christians" trying to prove how Christianity was well treated in the Third Reich.


Adolf Hitler approved the Law for the Protection of the National Socialist Workers’ Party Insignia of April 1937, which forbade non-party organizations from using NSDAP symbols, such as the swastika. One of the organizations targeted by this law was the German Christians, whose symbol was a cross with a swastika. In June, the Ministry of Church Affairs ordered all church groups to stop using NSDAP symbols.


So, Hitler literally forbade the Christians to continue using this flag, oy vey they were really well treated...


“Erlass des Reichskirchenministers betr. Führung von Bezeichnungen der NSDAP durch kirchliche Vereine und Gruppen,” June 3, 1937, in Dokumente zur Kirchenpolitik des Dritten Reiches, vol. 4: 1937–39, ed. Gertraud Grünzinger and Carsten Nicolaisen (Gütersloh: Christian Kaiser/ Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2000), 4: 78.

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