Hello Applor
I wasn’t aware of that term being used for referring to the Reichs Adler in that way. I learned about that saying (grew up in Germany and went to school there and fluent in German) is that it is related to, a vulture is circling a dead carcass and you can see “ the Pleite Geier circling” over a company that is about to go bankrupt or go out of business. Hope this helps.

Robert

Thanks for the replies. I've actually found an explanation to the term from the stummi forum:
https://www.stummiforum....-an-Loks.html#msg2036546

referencing this wiki page:

https://www.heraldik-wik...undeswappen_Deutschlands

Under the heading "Federal Republic of Germany"

After the re-establishment of German statehood on a democratic basis after the Second World War, it was a matter of course for the Federal Republic of Germany to once again honor the eagle of the German Republic as the federal coat of arms. On January 20, 1950, Federal President Theodor Heuss established the German coat of arms unchanged as it had been in the Weimar period of the German Reich and since German unity in 1990 has again been the coat of arms for all of Germany. In addition to the official representations of the federal eagle as in the federal coat of arms, in the federal service flagor in the standard of the Federal President, its stylistic design for other representative purposes, for example on coins or on the front wall of the German Bundestag , is at the discretion of the federal authorities and reflects a wide range of modern artistic sensibilities. [6] In the course of the increasingly distressed public budgets since the 1970s, the eagle of the federal coat of arms, presumably also due to its rather lean and ragged appearance compared to the so-called "Fette Henne" (see below), has been called the " bankrupt vulture " Popularity.

Well I received a message from a German with the following explanation, translation below that:

"Pleitegeier" ist ein mehrdeutiges, abwertendes Wortspiel... "Pleite" steht hier für "epic fail" Weil Das tausendjährige Reich gerade mal ein paar Jahre existierte und den Kontinent und die Welt ins Verderben zog... Und "Geier" ist abwertend für verschiedene große Vögel - auch Adler... Mit der "fetten Henne" hat das allerdings nichts zu tun.

"Pleitegeier" is an ambiguous, derogatory word game... "Broke" here stands for "epic fail" Because the thousand-year Reich only existed for a few years and brought the continent and the world to ruin... And "vulture" is derogatory for various large birds - including eagles... However, that has nothing to do with the "fat hen".