Talk:FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1934

Flag designation of Germany
The German flag must show the Nazi flag for historical purposes. Chris (talk) 14:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi. I've been asked as an uninvolved party to offer an opinion on this subject, which is always a good way to handle content disputes. :) My first inclination was to see how the question of the flag is handled in other athletic competitions of the time period to see if consensus already exists on the handling of this. I note the Nazi flag is used in FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1935, 1936 Summer Olympics and 1936 Winter Olympics. It was not for 1932 Summer Olympics, because the Nazi party was not yet in power. As the Nazi flag was the official flag of Germany in 1934, it seems appropriate to use in this article. Concerns of offending relatives of competitors do not seem sufficient to overcome this reason for the flag, as Wikipedia is not censored. Is there an encyclopedic reason to use a different flag? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi everyone. Apologies for the delayed response - I don't log in often. I had made a change to the 1934 page today before reading this thread - this has now been reversed. Firstly out of courtesy I did contact Chris by email to explain who I was and why I had made changes to icons on his pages, and no comment was made by Chris about my changes being a problem. With due respect I disagree with your comments "Concerns of offending relatives of competitors do not seem sufficient to overcome this reason for the flag, as Wikipedia is not censored." You may not be aware that Germany and several other European nations have banned the use / depiction of the swastika and Nazi flag in their constitution because for those who lived through the Nazi regime, this is a deeply offensive and contencious period of history. My concerns my be the first raised because of my family connection to team members of the German 1934 ski-ing team, however, if other German citizens were aware that the country's sporting achievements were associated with the Nazi regime through the use of this flag they would be very upset and would be contacting Wikipedia to ask for these icons to be removed.

I have one idea that might be acceptable to both sides, Germany had two national flags between 1933 and 1935, the black, red and white tricola might be a better alternative - see 

I welcome your thoughts?

FredRayner (talk) 11:04, 18 February 2008 (UTC)FredRaynerFredRayner (talk) 11:04, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Seeing that they had two flags between 1933 and 1935, that might be a good idea to put both flags in there. This will involve the Flag of Germany article because it affects other article besides this. If you want me to adjust this to include both, then let's do so. Chris (talk) 13:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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