Dennis Schroder led Germany to a world title. Now the Nets guard will lead his homeland in another way, as their first black Olympic flag bearer.

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Because Germany has banned use of the swastika and other Nazi imagery, some German neo-Nazis use an older flag, taken from Imperial Germany, as a substitute for the Nazi flag.

Germany's Patriotism Problem Just Don't Fly the Flag Over six decades after the end of World War II, Germans still have a pathological fear of patriotism. Flying the flag is still a faux pas.