Although the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation showed a black eagle with red legs against a gold background, those were not the official colors of the empire. The color ...

That depicted a black eagle with a red beak and feet on a gold background, which eventually became the flag we see today. However, when Germany's national team was set up in 1899, they opted to ...

Germany has long promoted the black eagle in its iconography. Even today, it still appears on the country's coat of arms. And it was while the nation was still a part of the much larger Prussian ...