There is no longer an official logo for the Finnish Air Force that featured a swastika.
The Nordic country’s military branch, which had been using the symbol decades before linking with Nazi Germany that devastated Europe during World War II, has quietly changed an emblem of unity to now show a golden eagle surrounded by a circle of wings .
“As the unit emblems are worn on the uniform, it was considered impractical and unnecessary to continue wearing the old unit emblem, which caused misunderstandings from time to time,” an Air Force spokesperson told the BBC.
The old Finnish Air Force Command logo on the left and the new logo on the right. (Ministry of Defense of Finland)
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The change to the Air Force Command logo was made in January 2017, the spokesperson added, but it wasn’t noticed until University of Helsinki professor Teivo Teivainen recently discovered the difference.
The swastika became a fixture in the Finnish Air Force at its founding in 1918. Earl Eric von Rosen of Sweden gifted the military branch with a plane that had a blue swastika, and saw the symbol as a good-looking amulet. lucky, according to the BBC.
His Air Force kept a blue swastika with a white background logo on his aircraft until 1945, the year World War II ended.
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After the war, the swastika still appeared on some emblems of Finnish Air Force units, flag and uniform decorations, the spokesman said.
Despite the change in the Air Force Command logo, which represents the high command of the military branch, the logo of the Finnish Air Force Academy still contains a swastika overlaid with a propeller, reports the BBC.
