An angular eagle behind the defense secretary departed from the Pentagon’s established branding. Critics saw echoes of the Third Reich.
A reimagined “Department of War” logo displayed behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a recent speech drew immediate comparisons to Third Reich iconography.
Speaking to Air Force Academy cadets on Saturday, Hegseth stood in front of a monochrome logo for his agency that differs from the designs in the Defense Department’s official branding guide. The backdrop features a stylized eagle that critics compared to the straight-edged Reichsadler used by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.
It’s not accidental, it’s intentional.
Yuuup. I’m waiting for they stop pretending they’re not following the Hitler playbook.
Giving credit to others is not part of their modus operandi.
They’d spin it somehow I guess how they’ve been doing it. You’re probably right. They might not credit the man but they are gladly accepting the playbook.
Pretty sure you could have stopped waiting back when they put up concentration camps
I was listening to NPR this morning and they had a guy from Newyork who was taken to a concentration camp in Louisiana. He wrote a book about it.
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/29/nx-s1-5984966/mahmoud-khalils-104-days-in-ice-detention
And that’s taking the connection to Roman Empire out of the equation
Absurd. So many flags and symbols have an eagle in this exact. same. position. There are enough real problems without this kind of absolute shite.
While I agree - Nazis are image focused. They have to look powerful, and look victimized, look successful, look like they know what they’re doing.
It’s not entirely a distraction - its a warning sign that they don’t intend to ensure peace.
Symbols are for the symbol minded. I care about fascist policy, not iconography. He could stand in front of a bust of Hitler for all I care just so long as he stops murdering fisherman, Iranian kids, and heroic drug smugglers.
1: all humans are “symbol minded” it’s how language works.
2: that’s stupid and dishonest and you’re stupid and dishonest for saying it
The DOD eagle is very close to the shape used, just with a slight swoop to the top of the wings.
Sometimes the wings have been pretty straight.
Both of those were taken from .mil pages. The major difference is in the straight horizontal feathers, which does match the Reichsadler.
It’s questionable, but I don’t think this is a slam dunk you take to your Fox News parents
Fox News parents are already gone lol
i mean. the fox news parents are already probably nazis anyway.
Or so twisted they’ll not be able to get out without professional help. It’s pretty culty and people spend their lives getting over that stuff.
There’s a pretty common thread of thought that they are ushering in the apocalypse, or in it already or something. That thought process takes a lot of work to prop up and nurture and a lot of that is internal. Who knows what that crash out will look like.
All the Nazi stuff is pretty concerning, but I believe that’s more of an issue for military aged men than anyone else and society already has a way to deal with that.
Agree. It’s even right there on the flag two feet away, which they’ve been using since 1949.
If I had a hindu swastika outside a temple and wanted “do a modern redesign” I’d definitely avoid rotating it by 45 degrees, removing the inner circles, and choosing a red, black, and white color pallet.
If I happen to do that by mistake. I’d definitely absolutely understand when someone pointed out that my “modern design” just suspiciously made it look MORE like a Nazi symbol. Which would clearly be the opposite intention behind a symbol that already has a similar look.
Point being. If we have imagery or symbols from the past that are similar to a white supremacist genocidal state and we were doing a “redesign” there is no possible way a well intention person could accidentally make it “more Nazi looking”.
It’s on purpose. It’s not gonna help your fox news parents. True. But anyone with a brain can understand what is being done here.
If only they’d done any other deliberately Nazi-esque things you could include to prove a pattern of behavior.
Other than the guy standing in front of it, pretty well a duplicate
He had to block the swastika, they’re not fully “out” Nazis yet.
The dude with a swastika tattoo who’s in charge of a fascist regime’s military and just launched the new Reichsministerium für die Kirchliche Angelegenheiten had a logo redesigned to look like the Nazi eagle
…and someone thinks this is a coincidence?
There’s no olive branch.
That’s sort of disturbing itself given the symbology of an olive branch.
Also, why did they change it from 13 stars (from the original colonies I think) to 5? Nazis are VERY image based people (so much so they would probably get classified as a personality disorder thinking about it, self-harm, cognitive dissonance, splitting) so they mean everything they show.
One for each of the seven branches of the military
7 != 5
Nobody said this administration was good at math. So… I mean its plausible
also no one ever counts the coast guard
Y’all Nazis don’t get to monopolize eagles.
Especially since the Nazis stole our eagle first.
The Romans would like a word.
Don’t you mean the Persians, whom the Romans stole it from?
Not sure this is surprising given how ultra-nationalist both the 3rd Reich and Magats are.
Oops! They said the quiet part loud.
And there was no significant push-back.
Again.
America is already lost.
Anyone who thinks the mid-terms alone will fix everything is dreaming.
Any outcome that permits fascists to live will result in continued fascism.
We have over 100 million fascists infesting our country. There is no peaceful or bloodless solution and people on the left absolutely refuse to do what is needed to erase the fascists. We aren’t even allowed to discuss it openly.
What is this from?
Starship Troopers
Would you like to know more?
He just needed fElon there in the audience throwing his heart out to him to really sell how un-nazi like he is.
You mean aside from the blatantly obvious Nazi uniforms for Space Command?
And the recent Iowa repubs convention literally show hitler speeches?
Did they rename space farce?
America has always been a bit nazi. Even the surfers
I mean the black cross really isn’t a Nazi symbol. It is a Prussian symbol long predating the Nazi regime, derived from the cross of the German Order, still in use by the German Bundeswehr to this day and we all know how thoroughly Germany is in not using any Nazi symbols anymore (and also making their depiction a crime).
Yeah, I was kinda joking with the surfers bit. It’s only a nazi thing if it’s been tatooted onto a white supremacist I guess
