• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it's a compass rose. No relation at all to the Swastika as far as I'm aware. They probably picked it for the nautical connotations of North Atlantic Bla blah blah.

      • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Not that the symbol is some secret secret "i told you "

        but one still should "know some things" about NATO

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

        NATO is a deeply fascist organization , where you think Anti Communist get "recruited from" in 1940's ?

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      • Adolf Heusinger, chief of the Operationsabteilung (third-in-command of the Wehrmacht) from 1940-1944 and Hitler’s acting Chief of Staff 1944, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee 1961-1964

      • Hans Speidel, chief of staff to Erwin Rommel, Supreme Commander of NATO’s ground forces in Central Europe 1957-1963

      • Johannes Steinhoff, Luftwaffe fighter pilot during WWII and recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross (the Nazi military’s highest award), Chairman of the NATO Military Committee 1971–1974

      • Johann von Kielmansegg, General Staff officer to the High Command of the Wehrmacht 1942-1944, NATO Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe 1967-1968

      • Ernst Ferber, Major in the Wehrmacht and group leader of the organizational department of the Supreme Command of the Army (Wehrmacht) 1943-1945 and recipient of the Iron Cross 1st Class, NATO Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe 1973-1975

      • Karl Schnell, battery chief in the Western campaign in 1940/later First General Staff Officer of the LXXVI Panzer Corps in 1944 and recipient of the Iron Cross 2nd Class, NATO Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe 1975-1977

      • Franz Joseph Schulze, Lieutenant in the reserve and Chief of the 3rd Battery of the Flak Storm Regiment 241 and recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross in 1944, NATO Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe 1977-1979

      • Ferdinand von Senger und Etterlin, Lieutenant of 24th Panzer Division in the German 6th Army, participant in the Battle of Stalingrad, adjutant to Army High Command, and recipient of the German Cross in gold, NATO Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe 1979-1983

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        and these aren't just random wehrmacht draftees (not that it would make it any better). Heusinger was in the room with Hitler when the failed assassination attempt was carried out against him by Claus von Stauffenberg

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      NATO and the post war western intelligence services were just a who's who of the Abwehr, SS, and various other fascist intelligence services. Which does not mean the NATO compass rose is a swastika.

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    1 year ago

    deleted by creator

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    It's totally a coincidence that like many other neo-nazis, "former" white nationalist Richard Spencer, who now pretends to be a "moderate", and simps for Biden, has the NATO logo as his Twitter profile header.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      No it's not. The Nazi Aligned Terror Organization is the central organizing body of the liberal branch of international fascism. But their flag has nothing to do with the Swastika.

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    You can tell they dropped the populism/mass movement from their political project because the flags blue now instead of red

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Yes, it's a swastika for the purpose of shitposting.

    No, nobody actually tried to hide a Nazi symbol in there like some Dan Brown novel.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    They had to make their senior leaders feel at home somehow