It makes me really angry! I hope nobody here will assume that having norse runes or symbols are nazi related!! What nazism did/do, is take other cultures symbols and calling them their own.
A part of the problem is that a lot of people are not familiar with the symbolism of other religions and cultures. The Swastika is everywhere in Asia, adorning Buddhas and temples. It's really fucking sad when you have ignorant tourists who don't know the difference.
There is a cultural component to all of this as well;
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It's important to not let people steal symbols and cultural meanings from others. Himmler created cultural historic revision and used them to further the propaganda. If people give in and accept Nazi ideologys use of them, it's essentially condoning and accepting them as primarily being a function of nazism, and that all other cultures- Hindu, Nordic, Roman, Pagan and Aryans should let their history play fiddle to that.
Himmler desperately wanted to retrofit Viking origins under their germanic past as proof of their racial superiority, thinking that Vikings spread Aryan racial myths in far away lands.
This is similar to the Roman legends where the romans saw themselves as the superior race in their time. The legend went that Romulus and Remus, the founders of rome, were descendents of Hercules. The romans having taken the culture from the greeks, stole their gods, their philosophy, their way of war, pottery, art and directed into their own versions. Not unusual, but seeing themselves as Greeks 2.0 probably played a large part in their psyche and infamous confidence which won them many victories.
At the height of the roman empire, it was fashionable to have greek origin in your. Greek style pottery, art and clothing was the hippest thing. Almost today like how Americans will sometimes be proud if they are 1/3 Italians, or Irish or whatever, the Romans saw themselves with an almost nostalgia for the greeks culture as a more pure form of their own.
The story of the revival Gothic type is to me the most powerful examples of nazi symbolism that was able to beat its nazi connotation.
Gothic type or Blackletters are bad ass and unique letters adorned by a very masculine style of fonts. The Fraktur Script was particularly popular in Germany, Norway, Sweden, Latvia and a few other surrounding regions by the 20th century. Today, one of those you'll recognize the most is Fette Fraktur. This is the type of The New York Times, of Corona Beer and many others!
Unlike the Didones who would appear hundreds of years later, the massive contrast between the thick and thin parts of the letters were due to the way the priests had their broad nib pens. Gothic type was originally the dominant bible font. Did it origin in Germany? Nobody really knows, but it is a possibility, so you can see why Himmler thought himself smart choosing this as the official Nazi Type. Everything he did was one big historical and cultural remix to fit everything under the narrative of German superiority.
There are different stories as to what happened, but for whatever reason, the type was banned in Germany in 1942 and labeled as "jew type". My favorite theory is that, due to the types poor legibility, the nazi regime would send letters to far away outposts and places where people where not used to reading this difficult style, and this caused massive problems. Basically they blamed the poor legibility on the jews, like everything else.
After the war, Gothic type was a total taboo. Its use had marked some of the worst slgans, banners and posters all over the western world. Blackletters were used all over the western Europe, not just in Germany, but it was too late, as the post-war scrambled everyone to distance themselves from nazism.
Blackletters has gotten a revival in the last 40 years through Punk, skater culture, Goth culture, fantasy.
Basically the lettering beat its evil connotation within a single lifetime, and it basically reminds us, that symbols, iconography, typography and wordmarks can be taken, but they can also be taken back.
The more people who are educated on it, the better. I'd really not like my friends to get punched in the face because they have a tatoo of Yggdrassill, or nordic runes saying their name, or Thors hammer. These are not nazi symbols, and they never will be, regardless of how much these people try to shoehorn their fake faux history into it. Ultimately it's people who choose what things symbolizes, but it also takes the majority population to accept that a symbol has been taken by others.