It's also worth noting where the use of the swastika by the nazis came from in the first place. Nazism didn't pop into form in Germany out of thin air, the ideology was fermented all over Europe for a long ass time. Finnish royals/nobility were part of that fermentation and the symbol became popular among nationalists through many ultranationalist meetings and collaborations over decades. Finland's use of it officially before the nazis does not absolve them of its historic tie to those movements.
It literally was used because Von Rosen was a rune obsessed fascist. also brother-in-law to Goring, who even made note of the swastikas in Rosen's home in 1920. Rosen joined the Finnish nazi party for fucks sake. On top of that he, a future nazi, who would be family with Goring in 2 years, and was an ethnographer and aristocrat just happened to be using the swastika as the roundel for planes he gifted to ultra-nationalist antisemitic Finland in 1918, WELL after the swastika was being used as a symbol of Volkism and Ariosophy
Germanenorden was a similar secret society with the same fucking ideals who monitored Jews, they adopted it in 1916, and the Order of the New Templars which followed Ariosophy used it in this context on their flag, I cannot find a date for their first usage, but they started it 1907. All of these groups knew each other, and had really close ties to Germanic and Nordic royals.
The man was advertised as a speaker at nazi events using the symbol. Like a guy who LOVED runes and LOVED Ariosophy just happened to use a swastika with no relation between those two interests of his?
It's also worth noting where the use of the swastika by the nazis came from in the first place. Nazism didn't pop into form in Germany out of thin air, the ideology was fermented all over Europe for a long ass time. Finnish royals/nobility were part of that fermentation and the symbol became popular among nationalists through many ultranationalist meetings and collaborations over decades. Finland's use of it officially before the nazis does not absolve them of its historic tie to those movements.
It literally was used because Von Rosen was a rune obsessed fascist. also brother-in-law to Goring, who even made note of the swastikas in Rosen's home in 1920. Rosen joined the Finnish nazi party for fucks sake. On top of that he, a future nazi, who would be family with Goring in 2 years, and was an ethnographer and aristocrat just happened to be using the swastika as the roundel for planes he gifted to ultra-nationalist antisemitic Finland in 1918, WELL after the swastika was being used as a symbol of Volkism and Ariosophy
Germanenorden was a similar secret society with the same fucking ideals who monitored Jews, they adopted it in 1916, and the Order of the New Templars which followed Ariosophy used it in this context on their flag, I cannot find a date for their first usage, but they started it 1907. All of these groups knew each other, and had really close ties to Germanic and Nordic royals.
The man was advertised as a speaker at nazi events using the symbol. Like a guy who LOVED runes and LOVED Ariosophy just happened to use a swastika with no relation between those two interests of his?