National emblem of East Germany

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The national emblem of East Germany was used to represent the German Democratic Republic from 1955 until German reunification. It featured a hammer and compass surrounded by a ring of wheat, an example of socialist heraldry. It was the only heraldic device of a European socialist state with a ring of grain which does not contain a red star.

Read on Wikipedia · Image Ministerpräsident der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik Otto Grotewohl; Ausführung in Grafik: Herbert Gute und Martin Hänisch (beide aus Dresden von der Kunstakademie Dresden) Nur mit Hammer und Kran…, Public domain