A century on, Finland air force drops swastika symbol – A Swedish count and future brother-in-law to Hermann Goering introduced the emblem to country in 1918, two years before the Nazi Party officially adopted it | Timesofisrael

Finland’s Air Force Command has quietly phased out its swastika emblem after over a century, a researcher said Wednesday.
Though Finland was allied with the Nazis against the Soviet Union during World War II, and though the Swedish count who introduced the symbol to the country in 1918 would become the brother-in-law of a prominent SS leader and friend to Adolf Hitler, the symbol’s use in the country preceded Nazism by several years and defenders say it has no links to the fascist movement.