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Graham Platner on Reddit 6 years ago commenting on a thread mentioning the totenkopf on a post discussing SS soldiers with a visible totenkopf in the photo
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Still think giving him the benefit of the doubt is cool?
did they use the reversed swastika as well? Not very informed on nazi symbology beyond the basics.
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.
Side eye delivered