‘But we had it first! The Nazis were actually copying us, they were jealous of how cool our aircraft looked while fighting on their side against the Soviets’ isn’t the winning argument they think it is.
fun fact!
finnish air force use the swastika because of count eric von rosen, brother-in-law to hermann göring and famous swedish nazi
so while technically true that their use did (barely) predate nazi germany using it, it was the same people adopting it
‘But we had it first! The Nazis were actually copying us, they were jealous of how cool our aircraft looked while fighting on their side against the Soviets’ isn’t the winning argument they think it is.
fun fact!
finnish air force use the swastika because of count eric von rosen, brother-in-law to hermann göring and famous swedish nazi
so while technically true that their use did (barely) predate nazi germany using it, it was the same people adopting it