Germany's soccer team meets Argentina Saturday in a much-anticipated World Cup quarterfinal match, and fans are fired up. But fervent flag-waving and other displays of nationalism are not sitting ...

The relationship of its citizens to their own flag is more complicated in Germany than in almost any other country in the world, Biermann told DW.

The dual German/English-language map is based on the German borders of 1937 and identifies which Allied country occupied which areas in 1945. Not only is this a historically significant map, it is ...

Dennis Schroder led Germany to a world title. Now the Nets guard will lead his homeland in another way, as their first black Olympic flag bearer.

Germany's Patriotism Problem Just Don't Fly the Flag Over six decades after the end of World War II, Germans still have a pathological fear of patriotism. Flying the flag is still a faux pas.

Japan and Denmark have had laws protecting foreign flags for decades, although in Denmark, the Danish national flag — known as the Danneborg — is not protected. Norway overturned a ban on ...

However, when Germany's national team was set up in 1899, they opted to promote the white and black colours seen on the flag of Prussia, which was eventually dissolved in the early 20th century.