Nazism can be seen as descended from the radical branches of the pan-Germanist movement.[34] In 1933, the Nazis and the Greater German People's Party formed a joint working-group, and eventually merged.[35] During the period while the Nazi Party and its symbols were banned in Austria, from 1933 to 1938, Austrian Nazis resumed the earlier pan-Germanist tradition of wearing a blue cornflower in their buttonhole.[36]