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Just testing, foo.
To clear things up.
The swastika is not owned by the Nazis. People are merely giving them credit. It's an old symbol that dates back to around 3000 B.C. in Sumeria, though it wasn't widely used until around 1000 B.C.

Still, this is long before Nazis.

The symbol was used in China as "wan", Japan as "manji, and India as the "swastika" we know. It got the latter name from su = "good", asti = "to be", with the suffix "ka" from sanskrit. It's most often used as a symbol for good luck; Probably why it was used by the Nazis. They used the swastika proper, not the sauvastika (a symbol of bad luck), as people will say from time to time. You can also see it on the Finnish "Cross of Freedom" from 1918, just two years before it was recognized for use in the Nazi party banner.
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/9614/swastika1yk.png
More specifically, though, the Nazis used it tilted like so:


The standard swastika, flat on its side (in either direction), is not a Nazi symbol.

Post Permanent Link Ryonin · Fri Mar 24, 2006 @ 12:08am · 0 Comments
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