The Fatherland Flag is a combination between the flag of Prussia and the flag of the Hanseatic League. The Fatherland Flag was first used as the flag of the North German confederation which was formed in 1867. Later, after the Franco-Prussian War, the German Empire was founded. The German nation would continue using it until the German Revolution of 1918–1919, which resulted in the founding of the Weimar Republic. The Weimar republic did not use it as a national flag. But the Weimar republic did use the flag in the Weimar Military. until the Nazi Party reinstated it as a co-official flag from 1933-1935 to pander to German conservatives. During World War II, German exiles in the Soviet Union adopted it as their new flag for a free German state. Due to this, after World War II, East Germany almost adopted the Fatherland Flag as their national flag.