Still think giving him the benefit of the doubt is cool?

  • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.netOP
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    2 days ago

    Yes, there’s limited historical evidence of them using the reverse:

    Prior to the Nazis seizing power there was fairly widespread use of the swastika, including in Germany, and its use was less codified so you can probably find pre-Nazi German swastikas being flown that are of the opposite orientation and it would take a real history buff (obviously not a Graham Platner-tier history buff) to be able to tell if that’s a Weimar Republic era warship flying the reverse swastika or if the image was taken a few short years later under Nazi Germany. (Also anyone who can tell the difference immediately who isn’t some dusty old academic in the history department of a university deserves a side eye.)

    So yeah. It’s complicated but it seems like it was used, albeit rarely.