Context: The company is German and has been around long enough (120 years) to have seen it used as a hate symbol during WW2.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      I posted a photo of a Balkenkreuz on a Luftwaffe plane from WW2 and this cross looks strikingly similar.

      Even the black, red, white colour scheme used ties in with the Third Reich colour pallet.

      And from a German company who was around during WW2…

      I mean, I’m no conspiracy theorist, but this couldn’t all be a coincidence. LOL

      • ShadowRam@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        Balkenkreuz was in use prior to WW2 and prior to Nazi’s.

        It appears to be a symbol of the German Armed Forces, which is a separate entity of the political Nazi party.

        Some of the German forces,(like the Luftwaffe) were actually pretty anti-nazi.

        So while that symbol was used by the German Forces during the Nazi regime, I wouldn’t automatically see that symbol and think Nazi’s.

        The Swastika (with colors/rotation) and some of the SS symbols/group icons are definitely Nazi, as those are directly related to the political party.