Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to AssholeDesign@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoIs that “Balkenkreuz” beam cross, which was used by Nazis, intentional or not?lemmy.caimagemessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down150file-text
arrow-up1-39arrow-down1imageIs that “Balkenkreuz” beam cross, which was used by Nazis, intentional or not?lemmy.caShowroom7561@lemmy.ca to AssholeDesign@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square52fedilinkfile-text
Context: The company is German and has been around long enough (120 years) to have seen it used as a hate symbol during WW2.
minus-squarestatic09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoIf only there was some sort of symbolism they could use to tie-in with the name of the product…
minus-squareShowroom7561@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·1 year agoOf course, perhaps the medical cross they were using in previous models would have more concise? Changing it to something historically awful seems like a terrible mistake.
If only there was some sort of symbolism they could use to tie-in with the name of the product…
Of course, perhaps the medical cross they were using in previous models would have more concise?
Changing it to something historically awful seems like a terrible mistake.