 In 1968 the teams from the two German states entered separately, but both used the same German Olympic flag.From 1972 to 1988, the separate West and East German teams used their respective national flags.After the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, many East Germans cut the coat of arms out of their flags, as Hungarians had done in 1956 and as Romanians would soon do during the fall of Ceaușescu.