In 1994, such symbols were declared equivalent to the ones they imitate (Verbrechensbekämpfungsgesetz Abs. 2). As a result of the ban on Nazi symbols, German Neo-Nazis have used older symbols such as the black-white-red German Imperial flag (which was also briefly used by the Nazis alongside the party flag as one of two official flags of Nazi Germany from 1933 until 1935) as well as variants of this flag such as the one with the Eisernes Kreuz (Iron Cross) and the Reichsdienstflagge variants, the Imperial-era Reichskriegsflagge, and the flag of the Strasserite Black Front – a splinter Nazi organization – as alternatives.[citation needed]