Difference between the French and the Dutch flags

[DJE]

The Dutch do it lying down, the French standing up.
Childish, but works for me

Similarly Germans and Belgians?

[BlackPig]

Similarly Germans and Belgians?

but wrong way around.

[Liz_I]

Holland is flat

[Leighb]

but wrong way around.

German is horizontal, Belgian vertical. Just what he said, or implied anyway.

I have an odd way of remembering. There is a dialect of German "Plat-Deutsch" this means low or flat german. Thus German flag is flat. Works for me.

We see so many Dutch flags here I don't have trouble remembering them.

[reginaldon]

My own mnemonic is Vive (vertical) La France and French speaking Belgium, whereas both Holland and Germany are horizontal.

[sailor211]

Would you be so disrespectful to your national flag / ensign, as to let it fall apart so only 1/3 of it was left? Shamefull

[snowleopard]

In a discussion about flags I explained to an American colleague 'France is to Holland as Belgium is to Germany'. For some reason I still haven't worked out she thought I was insulting our European neighbours.

[Seven Spades]

Here is the originating page it is quite interesting. The flags above seem to have been in use during WW2

http://www.quadibloc.com/other/flaint.htm

[john_morris_uk]

I was always taught that the way to remember the French Flag is the French Colours always come down. (ie the stripes are vertical - and in memory of Trafalgar....)

[Hayling]

The Germans invaded the Netherlands (Both Horizontal)
and down through Belgium into France (Both Vertical)

Not strictly historically accurate but good enough for my purposes.