That’s where it started but I wouldn’t call him a proto-Nazi at that point. But in any case, point was that when the symbol was adopted, it had nothing to do with Nazis. Unless something being Nazi is some sort of transitive property, traveling back through the chain to 1918.
As far as I know time moves in just one direction and those dates are after 1918. I’m sorry, I’m not trying to gross you out on purpose. I just don’t understand calling it a Nazi symbol for how it was used after Finnish Air Force adopted it. To me it seems clear that if it was adopted before those things existed/happened then how could they have adopted a Nazi symbol?
I don’t know if you noticed the 1918 there. I’m not sure even proto-Nazis were around that time.
Hitler’s origin story is literally getting owned in ww1
That’s where it started but I wouldn’t call him a proto-Nazi at that point. But in any case, point was that when the symbol was adopted, it had nothing to do with Nazis. Unless something being Nazi is some sort of transitive property, traveling back through the chain to 1918.
Hitler joined the party that would become the Nazis in 1919. Von Rosen met Hitler in like 1922.
This little shell game you’re trying to play with the dates is super gross.
As far as I know time moves in just one direction and those dates are after 1918. I’m sorry, I’m not trying to gross you out on purpose. I just don’t understand calling it a Nazi symbol for how it was used after Finnish Air Force adopted it. To me it seems clear that if it was adopted before those things existed/happened then how could they have adopted a Nazi symbol?
I was refuting your claim that Nazism wasn’t around at the time.
And what’s your excuse for it’s continued use after 1920, when it publicly became a Nazi symbol?
Did they just not have paint, and wanted to be polite to the guy who donated 1 plane?
Oh wait, the swastika was a symbol for Aryan purity as early as 1912.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-brought-swastika-germany-and-how-nazis-stole-it-180962812/
I think if we consider those Aryan purity people proto-Nazis (and I think we can) then I admit to being wrong about proto-Nazis being around.
That’s kind of you, thank you.
Eh, online arguments are bad enough without people stubbornly refusing to admit when they’re wrong. I try.