The shape, with that cutout/notch on the corner, is quite telling. The German armed forces stylize the iron cross pretty differently nowadays, precisely to break from the connection to the nazis. Even though Hitler himself favored antiqua over fraktur typefaces, it wasn’t until 1941 when they made the switch, so the latter is more often associated with the third reich than the former. The unit number, 422 (which was changed from 129, the one assigned when it was established), does sound like a neo-nazi dog whistle, 4 22 = 88 or something. There’s also the other emblem on this page (similar to the emblem of the nazi luftwaffe, with the swastika swapped for an iron cross).
These are nazis. I don’t mean this in anyway to support Russia or to try to diminish support for Ukraine. It’s not like we don’t have all the European militaries full of nazis/fascists as well.
The shape, with that cutout/notch on the corner, is quite telling. The German armed forces stylize the iron cross pretty differently nowadays, precisely to break from the connection to the nazis. Even though Hitler himself favored antiqua over fraktur typefaces, it wasn’t until 1941 when they made the switch, so the latter is more often associated with the third reich than the former. The unit number, 422 (which was changed from 129, the one assigned when it was established), does sound like a neo-nazi dog whistle, 4 22 = 88 or something. There’s also the other emblem on this page (similar to the emblem of the nazi luftwaffe, with the swastika swapped for an iron cross).
These are nazis. I don’t mean this in anyway to support Russia or to try to diminish support for Ukraine. It’s not like we don’t have all the European militaries full of nazis/fascists as well.