the british flag has stayed the same and i believe the japanese has to as for the russian i am not sure

Hi Scorpion. I found this excellent resource site. It should give you all the info you need.
http://www.wwiitech.net/main/britain/archives/flags/index.html

I believe the Japanese had a couple three. At least two of the three for sure.

All white with the red meatball in the center.
White with red meatball and red rays.
White with white circle and red rays.

And wasn't the German one still the double headed eagle - or the red one with the cross like in the game - the swasticker was for the Nazi party - at first anyway.

chinese WW2 flag is the one taiwan now uses

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Maybe... Or it might be the Hungarian flag. I really am not sure.

Ok, thanks.  I had a good idea of what they were, just needed some confirmation.

• Germany: Had a good idea what the flag was, but thought it might've just been put up at Hitler's speeches only.
• Britain: Little doubt.
• Japan: Meatball, or meatball with rays?
• Russia: Thought it looked like Red China's flag.

Good I could get that cleared up!  But just so we're in accordance, this is what were all talking about?

On second thought, that Russian flag is really ugly.  Think I'll save myself the 15 bucks.

I have a book (one of the thousands) that deals with the Third Reich.
Of course the German national flag during the Nazi years was the plain swaztika type, however, the Germans apparently had a real fetish about flags.
There was one for almost every branch and unit of the Party. There would be at least 50 different flags listed for one organisation or another, ie the SA has theirs, SS had theirs, the Luftwaffe had theirs etc.
They all seem to be based either on the swaztika or the 'maltese' type cross, or both.

Here are the 'State Flag' and 'War Ensign' respectively:

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I think it's longer than that, isn't it?

My primary school history is a little rusty. I know it's a combination of the crosses of England (St george), Scotland (St Andrew) and Wales (St Who??).

As my grandfather used to say "it was way back when everyone was a Catholic".......lol

P.S. Aussie kids had to learn stuff like this in the '60's because we still liked Britain then..............lol. It wasn't just an island full of whinging Poms. 

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Just the french?
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What about the ruskies?

Well its been lots of things in the past including a double headed eagle in the past... I think...

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OUCH!!!........................you bitch

Check out the post showing the "battle flag". Probably something like that.

(Please, French people, this is aimed soley at the Vichy regime and their support for/collaboration with the Nazi's during WWII).

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I just thought maybe the posion of the diagonal red bars was changed or domething. ???

Umm the Welsh flag is not at all  in the Union Jack (dunno why ??? ) Theres the Scottish flag with the English flag overlayed on it.

P.S "when everyone was a catholic" bloody hell thats a long way back cause of those damn tudors and I resent the term whining pom.

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When I find my flag it will go on the wall when i make space for it. Along with my giant union jack.

American slang for "p**sing off" someone

Roflmfao!!!

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The Union Flag is St. George's Cross for England, (Red cross White Field)

St. Andrews Cross for Scotland (White Saltair, Blue Field)

And St. Patricks Cross for Ireland (Red Saltaire, White field)

Wales is not included as it is a principality and not a Kingdom of the Union, which incidentaly was formed around 1742 long before the colonists in north america expressed independent thought...

And long after the reformation (16th Century)

As for Whining Poms, I've known enough aussies to get used to that one LOL.

Will

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You know, I have been out here all this time, and have yet to see anything go "wrong" in the forums. I find it amazing that we all can act like adults on serious subjects, and yet, others, like infants. No other forum (that I have seen) is this way.

Thanks Crumbso,

I didn't for a moment think you were being "snotty" or anything like that.
I was concerned that I had actually overstepped the mark and upset you, and you hadn't "cooled" enough to address the incident.
I'm glad to hear that wasn't the case, and that we're fine.
Thanks.

At the risk of upsetting a Frenchman or two. It does seem they weren't much of a help (compared to the efforts of the US, Briatain, USSR and yes, even Australia).
They did crumble pretty quickly.
However, let's not forget that out of all the occupied countries, France was at the forefront in Underground, Guerilla and Partisan fighting. In fact, the Normandy invasion would have been far more difficult and costly had it not been for their activities. 

You may well be right, Smokes. And probably are.

I don't mean to say that they didn't fight, or that they were by any means lacking in courage. After all, as you say, the British would have gone down in the same way, and did, to a degree if you consider the Expeditionary Force.

I think my bewilderment (admittedly with total hindsight) and frustration at the way in which the French allowed the Nazis to march into the Rhineland without so much as a protest, tends to get me thinking of WWII France as just "not having the stomach for it".
The Nazis were under very strict orders from Hitler himself to turn back if they met the slightest resistance.
They didn't come up against so much as one shot.
I often think what would have been had the French not been so desperate to avoid another war.
This was at a time when it is widely agreed that the French Army could have beaten off a German invasion. The German war machine at this time was still very much in its' infancy.

All this considered, I concede your point. They don't deserve what may have been misconstrued as scorn in my post. 

I've seen the 30,000,000 figurealot. I don't think it takes into account the "sketchy" Russian figures of civilians.
Most of the authorative books and indeed the acclaimed "World at War" BBC series (the one narated by Lawence Olivier, put it at an even 50 million.
For the purpose of these discussions, though, 30 or 50 is academic.

I know, once again, my comments are made with "20/20 hindsight" but sometimes I get so very..................disappointed with those who were, not the "architects", but at least the "building permits department" of that terrible 5 years, 8 months and 1 week (Sept 1 - beginning of hostilities - to May 8 ) in Europe. I mean, those that allowed events to take place, that in any other place and time would not have been allowed to continue, at least not completely unchallenged.

I suppose Hitler or "fate (if you beleive in that philosophy) chose exactly the right time, place, people and climate.
In discussions, I often say to people, with occasional quizzical looks, that WWII was ordained to be, the day WWI finished. So much unfinished business. So much malice in the Armistice to be avenged. So many dead for nothing.