This old excuse. It was used because it was the personal symbol of an aristocrat anti-communist who funded the Finnish whites in their slaughter of communists and jews during that civil war. This was AFTER Ariosophy had adopted the symbol. Early proto-fascists like the Order of the New Templars who formed in 1900 had adopted the swastika. It is more like Hitler and this guy got it from the same place. This donor also was the brother in law of Goring who has even remarked on the symbol being all over his house around 1919-1922, though the Nazis had already adopted the symbol before Goring and Hitler met.
The point is, Von Rosen was literally the founder of the Swedish Nazi party and funded the far right in Finland, giving them planes marked with a symbol long since tied to Armanism and the like, and then proceeded to be an ardent supporter of Hitler once he joined that broader movement.
It is honestly MORE damning when you look up the actual history because it reveals how entrenched these people were already, and how they had been true believers long before Hitler came into the picture. They knew what the symbol meant, they made it what it became, and then joined ranks once a subset of them gained real prominence.
It predates the Nazi party not because it is clean, but because its bloody, dirty, soiled hands forged the Nazis in its own image. Also Latvia’s air force and a bunch of their military used the swastika starting with their anti-Bolshevik war until joining the USSR.
This old excuse. It was used because it was the personal symbol of an aristocrat anti-communist who funded the Finnish whites in their slaughter of communists and jews during that civil war. This was AFTER Ariosophy had adopted the symbol. Early proto-fascists like the Order of the New Templars who formed in 1900 had adopted the swastika. It is more like Hitler and this guy got it from the same place. This donor also was the brother in law of Goring who has even remarked on the symbol being all over his house around 1919-1922, though the Nazis had already adopted the symbol before Goring and Hitler met.
The point is, Von Rosen was literally the founder of the Swedish Nazi party and funded the far right in Finland, giving them planes marked with a symbol long since tied to Armanism and the like, and then proceeded to be an ardent supporter of Hitler once he joined that broader movement.
It is honestly MORE damning when you look up the actual history because it reveals how entrenched these people were already, and how they had been true believers long before Hitler came into the picture. They knew what the symbol meant, they made it what it became, and then joined ranks once a subset of them gained real prominence.
It predates the Nazi party not because it is clean, but because its bloody, dirty, soiled hands forged the Nazis in its own image. Also Latvia’s air force and a bunch of their military used the swastika starting with their anti-Bolshevik war until joining the USSR.
Good to know, thanks for the information.