German New Guinea [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Kaiser Wilhelmsland) in his 1920 book "Vier Jahre unter Kannibalen" ("Four Years Among Cannibals"). These claims were heavily disputed by various German missionaries, and Detzner recanted most of his claims in 1932.
After the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, Germany lost all its colonial possessions, including German New Guinea. In 1923, the League of Nations gave Australia a trustee mandate over Nauru, with the United Kingdom and New Zealand as co-trustees. Other lands south of the equator became the Territory of
at a suggestion from the conservative German Social Union party, that all images of the national emblem on public buildings would be removed or covered. There was never a decision made for a new national coat of arms or emblem. The emblem was never formally abolished but became obsolete on the same moment the German Democratic Republic was dissolved, on 3 October 1990.
See also.
- Hammer and sickle
- Square and Compasses
- Coat of arms of Germany
External links.
- Gesetz über das Staatswappen und