Free State of Prussia
With the fall of the House of Hohenzollern in 1918, the Kingdom of Prussia was succeeded by the Free State of Prussia within the Weimar Republic; the new Prussian arms depicted a single black eagle. While part of Nazi Germany, the free state's arms depicted a single black eagle with a swastika and the phrase Gott mit uns beginning in 1933. The Reichsstatthaltergesetz of 1935 removed all effective power from the Prussian government, and the state was ultimately dissolved in 1947.
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