• @KimJongGoku
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    141 year ago

    Yup, but it’s actually much older and cringier. In 1813 the Prussian military adopted it as a military symbol and award and it was supposed to be a variant of the symbol of the Teutonic Order, a German order of crusaders formed in 1190. The German Empire then kept carrying it on, both as a symbol for its military and as military decoration it would award.

    The Teutonic Order itself based their symbol on the Knights Templar. So basically today there is like an onion of lowkey larping as a Catholic military order going on.

    …I wonder why the Bundeswehr has a nazi problem