Even kijken:
1) Naam 'Luftwaffe' in Duits, betekenis: luchtmacht (letterlijk: luchtwapen).
2) Logo IJzeren Kruis is een Pruissische / Duitse onderscheiding; niet enkel gerelateerd aan Nazi-Duitsland. Zie:
Wikipedia: Iron Cross zonder duidelijke referentie naar Nazi-Duitsland is dit geen hondenfluitje, aldus (geparafraseerd) ADL in Wikipedia entry.
3) Font. De gebruikte font is vermoedelijk: Thannhaeuser Fraktur (mogelijk de Bold Condensed variant). Deze is familie van Fraktur, en die werd wijd gebruikt in een periode van Nazi-Duitsland, maar ook in het interbellum. Dat duurde tot 1941, toen Martin Borrmann de Fraktur typefaces allen bij wet verbande ten faveure van 'Normalschrifterlass' (Antiqua) wie hierover meer wil lezen (bronnen) zie:
Wikipedia: Schwabacher Wikipedia: Tannenberg (typeface) en
Wikipedia: Gebrochene Grotesk – Wikipedia Wikipedia: Antiqua een aardig artikel hierover is nog deze:
Antiqua vs. Fraktur
In the second half of the 18th century, Germans developed a growing interest in French and Classical literature, thanks to the influence of the Enlightenment, Weimar Classicism and the French Revolution. Anyone who was internationally educated also had to be able to read internationally — that meant using Antiqua. Still, many traditionalists in Germany felt strongly about staying with Fraktur as a “German font.”
During the Nazi regime, Fraktur experienced a renaissance as a “German typeface,” and in 1937, the Ministry of Propaganda even forbade Jewish publishers to use it. Adolf Hitler, however, saw the return to blackletter fonts as backwards. In his 1941 decree, Blackletter fonts were designated as “Schwabacher Jew Letters” and Antiqua was ushered in again as “normal type.” This reasoning was not only contradictory, but also ahistorical: At the time of the Schwabacher typeface, only Christians had been allowed to print books.
The real reason for the (expensive) change during wartime was probably because Hitler assumed German would become the world’s dominant language — and in Antiqua, everyone could read it.
En:
German typefaces
You’ve probably seen the funny-looking German typefaces (like in the illustration above) many times before: from museums and historical movies, to cute antique signs and perhaps even on your great-grandmother’s birth certificate, they’re practically synonymous with traditional German culture. But why do these typefaces look so different from other fonts, and why are they so closely associated with Germany? To find out, we’ll embark on a journey that begins with the history of the printed word.
German Fonts Today
After the end of the Second World War, typefaces were regulated by the occupying powers. In the West, the use of “German fonts” was often prohibited by the Allies because they couldn’t read them. Of course, the change was not abrupt: On his insistence, the works of Hermann Hesse were printed in Fraktur for years, and the Protestant church used the “German type” until the 1960s.
Now that everyone has a printer, we see all sorts of fonts, though Antiqua fonts dominate. Still, Fraktur has its adherents. Some German newspapers use or recently used (most notably the Frankfurter Allgemeine until 2007) Fraktur as a display type.
Blackletter is also used in advertising and signage to give off a “homey” or “traditional” vibe: At rustic restaurants, beer gardens, sausage packers, and so on. In addition, Fraktur and other Blackletter fonts also appear in subcultures such as metal, punk, goth or hip-hop — often in the form of tattoos. And, despite its wartime ban, Blackletter is also popular with Neo-Nazis — although who really expects historical understanding from them?
Bron:
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/german-typefaces
Het verwijst naar Duitsland, zoveel is duidelijk, en dat is het punt van discussie niet. Of het ook refereert aan Nazi-Duitsland lijkt me onduidelijk. Je mag dat onverstandig vinden, maar Duitsland levert wel aan Oekraïne.
Wat betreft ADL's take:
The Anti-Defamation League states that the version of the symbol with a swastika has been commonly used by neo-Nazis and other white supremacists as a hate symbol since it was discontinued following World War II, but the wider use of the Iron Cross in various subcultures means determining its use as a hate symbol relies on context: "an Iron Cross in isolation (i.e., without a superimposed swastika or without other accompanying hate symbols) cannot be determined to be a hate symbol".
Ik zie geen haatsymbolen bij het IJzeren Kruis staan. Ik zie 422, dat zegt verder niets. Het woord luftwaffe is geen haatsymbool.
Het slechte nieuws is het de 'bite' uit het schild op de top right. Dat is een referentie aan diverse SS pantserdivisies. Ook de witte outline, is typisch.
https://www.adl.org/resou...ol/ss-divisional-insignia
Ter vergelijking het logo van de 2e SS Panzer Division Das Reich:
Dit is een SVG, dus zeer eenvoudig te gebruiken om aan te passen voor een eigen logo. Kind van zes kan dat nog.
De combinatie van de bovenstaande factoren, vooral het specifieke shield bite, met zwart en wit gebruik, plus de witte omranding maken het helaas een referentie naar Nazi-Duitsland.
Nog even ter vergelijking:
[
Voor 45% gewijzigd door
Jerie op 20-08-2026 16:50
. Reden: quote was te ruim, verkeerd gecopypaste ]
/u/127/chimera.png?f=community)
/u/26886/ijsbeer.png?f=community)
:strip_icc():strip_exif()/u/285051/teaglass_tweakers.jpg?f=community)
:strip_exif()/u/61575/Fireage_60_60.gif?f=community)
:strip_icc():strip_exif()/u/1075249/crop6257cdcf4ad75_cropped.jpg?f=community)
/u/147751/avatar455992_1.gif.png?f=community){kind=avatar}
:strip_exif()/f/image/QkLDS9MqpjbOkhecL1uixVt4.png?f=user_large)
:strip_icc():strip_exif()/u/111904/Untitled-1.jpg?f=community)
/u/324913/crop56a24cce05cd3_cropped.png?f=community)
/u/217510/crop660db19c1cf7b_cropped.png?f=community)
:strip_icc():strip_exif()/u/394556/Yakolev.jpg?f=community)
:strip_icc():strip_exif()/u/50114/Super-Mario-Bros-3-70PC.jpg?f=community)
:strip_icc():strip_exif()/u/126142/koe.jpg?f=community)
/u/107447/crop5b90d228acf2c_cropped.png?f=community)
/u/117810/cupcake2.png?f=community)
:strip_exif()/u/537677/crop67e13581e7d74_cropped.gif?f=community)
:strip_icc():strip_exif()/u/16567/my_avatar2.jpg?f=community){kind=avatar}
