Overview

• The Air Force Command said historical unit and parade flags featuring the symbol will be taken out of use "in the near future."
• Colonel Tomi Böhm told broadcaster Yle the banners had sometimes led to "unpleasant situations" with visiting personnel.
• Reports cited historian Teivo Teivainen saying German Air Force members skipped a 2021 ceremony in Lapland after learning such flags would be displayed.
• The emblem traces to a 1918 gift from Swedish aristocrat Eric von Rosen, whose later Nazi sympathies and family tie to Hermann Göring complicate the symbol’s provenance.
• The swastika disappeared from aircraft in 1945 and from the command emblem in 2017, yet local reporting notes the motif still appears on some state sites, including over the presidential palace.