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I have reported more than once on the very frequent display of the German flag upside down in Spain, most notably at tourist resorts but also elsewhere.
Santiago Dotor, 6 September 2001
Well, even here in Germany such things happen. I frequently pass by a restaurant in a little village, where they have oblique flagstaffs at the wall. The German flag is upside down there.
Marcus Schmöger, 7 September 2001
6:1 by Marcus Schmöger |
During the 2000 Oktoberfest in Munich (...), at the Rathaus (town hall) there were very long vertical flags (about 6:1) of Bavaria, Germany and Munich.
Marcus Schmöger, 6 October 2000
The shield [Bundesschild or 'federal shield'] on the state flag has a special shape, not the same as in the coat-of-arms, though on flags used 'illegally' by sports fans the shield often totally resembles the coat-of-arms.
Dieter Linder, 12 January 1998
Issue 13 (26th March 2001) of the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, p. 6, showed a picture of German football fans waving that unofficial variant of the German state flag (scan here).
Marcus Schmöger, 11 May 2001
Editor's note: see also state flag 1921-1933 variant in an official publication, probably mistaken