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Yeah... wow... a group of buildings forming a relatively common geometric shape. Really bizarre. This definitely is some sort of fascist subversion, good candidate for debate, A+, will read again.

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heh, not a big deal.

Yeah... wow... a group of buildings forming a relatively common geometric shape. Really bizarre. This definitely is some sort of fascist subversion, good candidate for debate, A+, will read again.

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:rofl:

btw, in our library all the desk were shaped like swastikas - you know to sit 4 people with 4 tiny table spaces. well many people did not notice it, but because i am very tall i got pretty freaked out when i first went there - everywhere i looked there were people sitting around swastikas.

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Yeah... thats not San Francisco.... its San Diego, right off the Silver Strand. If you look to the left of the satellite image, you will see Coronado island, and Point Loma.

Just for kicks... there happens to be a Submarine pen there ;)

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no just interesting, and remember, the swastika is the hindu (i believe thats right dont quote me on it though) symbol for peace and was way before hitler ever used it for his purposes. I actually have a picture of a german jewish fighter pilot from WWI with a swastika on the side of his plane, just kinda neat and horribly ironic to see.

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the swastika is just a modified cross for the germans, there's hundreds of different iterations of the cross if you look at different regions and cultures.

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the swastika is just a modified cross for the germans

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wrong. think you should reopen that history book.

In the 1800s, countries around Germany were growing much larger, forming empires; yet Germany was not a unified country until 1871. To counter the feeling of vulnerability and the stigma of youth, German nationalists in the mid-nineteenth century began to use the swastika, because it had ancient Aryan/Indian origins, to represent a long Germanic/Aryan history.

By the end of the nineteenth century, the swastika could be found on nationalist German volkisch periodicals and was the official emblem of the German Gymnasts' League.

In the beginning of the twentieth century, the swastika was a common symbol of German nationalism and could be found in a multitude of places such as the emblem for the Wandervogel, a German youth movement; on Joerg Lanz von Liebenfels' antisemitic periodical Ostara; on various Freikorps units; and as an emblem of the Thule Society.

Hitler and the Nazis

In 1920, Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi Party needed its own insignia and flag. For Hitler, the new flag had to be "a symbol of our own struggle" as well as "highly effective as a poster." (Mein Kampf, pg. 495)

On August 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress, this flag became the official emblem of the Nazi Party.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler described the Nazis' new flag: "In red we see the social idea of the movement, in white the nationalistic idea, in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work, which as such always has been and always will be anti-Semitic." (pg. 496-497)

Because of the Nazis' flag, the swastika soon became a symbol of hate, antisemitism, violence, death, and murder.

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/...tikahistory.htm

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Wow, that is weird. I also remember seeing an image in my Social class of a forest that, when viewed from the top, formed a swastika. These Larch trees were planted by the Nazis in 1938 and they changed color for a brief period in the spring and fall.

Here is a picture. This was discovered in 2000.

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Here is the link to the story.

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no just interesting, and remember, the swastika is the hindu (i believe thats right dont quote me on it though) symbol for peace and was way before hitler ever used it for his purposes.  I actually have a picture of a german jewish fighter pilot from WWI with a swastika on the side of his plane, just kinda neat and horribly ironic to see.

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technically, there are two types of swastikas, left-handed and right-handed (depending on the direction of rotation).

the right-handed swastika is a symbol, often used in ancient asian religions that taught non-violence, of prosperity, well-being, etc. the left-handed one is the swastika used by the nazis.

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technically, there are two types of swastikas, left-handed and right-handed (depending on the direction of rotation).

the right-handed swastika is a symbol, often used in ancient asian religions that taught non-violence, of prosperity, well-being, etc.  the left-handed one is the swastika used by the nazis.

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interesting, well as i said dont quote me on that so this clears that up, thanks.

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technically, there are two types of swastikas, left-handed and right-handed (depending on the direction of rotation).

the right-handed swastika is a symbol, often used in ancient asian religions that taught non-violence, of prosperity, well-being, etc.? the left-handed one is the swastika used by the nazis.

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total, wrongness yo, I have a book full of Japanese clan emblems from long before there was even the notion of Nazism, and they have swastikas going in every direction.

as an interesting foot-note, there is a little town in northern Ontario called Swastika, odd how they made "New Berlin" change its name, but not Swastika....

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total, wrongness yo,  I have a book full of Japanese clan emblems from long before there was even the notion of Nazism, and they have swastikas going in every direction.

as an interesting foot-note, there is a little town in northern Ontario called Swastika, odd how they made "New Berlin" change its name, but not Swastika....

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total...wrongness...yo...? heh

The fact of the matter is a Swastika is a very common symbol, it is featured in a lot of cultures meaning a wide varity of things. If I'm not mistaken it is a symbol in pre-Columbian America as well.

The reason it's use is so wide spread is simple, it is very easy to make one, out of nearly anything. Which is the same reason the cross replaced a fish as the symbol of Christianity. K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid)

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total, wrongness yo,  I have a book full of Japanese clan emblems from long before there was even the notion of Nazism, and they have swastikas going in every direction.

as an interesting foot-note, there is a little town in northern Ontario called Swastika, odd how they made "New Berlin" change its name, but not Swastika....

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i don't see why it's total wrongness yo when i was considering ancient asian religions that preached non-violence and prosperity and not japanese clan emblems.

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i don't see why it's total wrongness yo when i was considering ancient asian religions that preached non-violence and prosperity and not japanese clan emblems.

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Ok, it's not totally wrong what you said but the Swastika used by the nazis was used by many cultures before it was corrupted. You will find many swastikas around the US as part of architecture dating from the 20's and early 30's. They also used to be used as good luck charms and ironically some Jewish artifacts/works of art and toys etc.. in North America featured swastikas.

Obviously, it has been marred as a symbol by the Nazis but it did once hold a different significance.

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Ok, it's not totally wrong what you said but the Swastika used by the nazis was used by many cultures before it was corrupted. You will find many swastikas around the US as part of architecture dating from the 20's and early 30's. They also used to be used as good luck charms and ironically some Jewish artifacts/works of art and toys etc.. in North America featured swastikas.

Obviously, it has been marred as a symbol by the Nazis but it did once hold a different significance.

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there's no doubt about it, but at least the left-handed symbol in those religions was about prosperity. the right-handed one may have been corrupted, but i don't know of the symbolic significance of that sign.

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k, I wasnt saying that the swastika existed only as a japanese clan emblem, because I know that the swastika has existed world wide for a long time, the flyflot, the suvastkia, the different greek skellions, the kruekenkruz, etc.

I was arguing that the Nazi party did not invent a particular direction of the arms

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