Heimat Berlin executive creative director Tom Hauser says now felt like the right time to reassess the flag, coinciding with the 30-year anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany.

The new law also applies to acts of defilement besides burning, such as publicly ripping a flag up. Public display of the Nazi swastika and other Nazi symbols is already banned in Germany.

Daisuke found relief in the words of Gerhard Bauer, who works for Germany’s Bundeswehr Military History Museum. In responding to an inquiry from the German House, Bauer confirmed the flag is a ...