luftwaffe officer Wolfgang von Gronau showing his order of the rising sun medal, awarded during his time in the german embassy in japan

order of the rising sun 

Nazi flags fill a festival at Innsbruck. It was Hitler who came up with the idea of using the swastika as the symbol of the Nazi Party. After many attempts, he wrote in Mein Kampf, "I found a definite proportion between the size of the flag and the size of the white disk, as well as the shape and thickness of the swastika."