• Ferrous@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    The Finnish Air Force swastika is such an interesting case to me, because the moment you do a google for “Finnish air force swastika”, you are blasted with rationalizations: “predates nazism”, “good luck charm”, “innocent”, “unrelated to Hitler”. You get blasted with rationalizations before you can even see the history: which is that the innocent wholesome chungus dude who brought the swastika was Hermann Göring’s brother in law lol.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_von_Rosen

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      6 hours ago

      which is that the innocent wholesome chungus dude who brought the swastika was Hermann Göring’s brother in law lol.

      And the fact that he was himself a leading member of the Swedish National Socialist Bloc (Nazi party)