I have a jacket with an Iron Cross / skull on it-and the word Volkswagen and the VW emblem. [View all]

I am not a Nazi sympathizer of any sort. Just an older hippie who went to a VW event & bought 2 of these old shop jackets cheap. I wore one out & this is a daily worn jacket.

Do you get my point?. It is / was cool. I do daily drive a 74 VW Bus.

When I was a kid in the 60's the Iron Cross was a common piece of clothing paraphernalia. A pin or patch the iron cross was just a "cool" symbol. It meant nothing symbolically to me or anyone else I knew.

This is the hand to god truth for me.


I hope you can give the same open thought to another errant use of symbolism. Skulls -I barely noticed the presence of it on my jacket patch till I started writing this. Not a fan.

But a lot of people think it's cool. Style not ideology.


my $.02