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Old 06-17-09, 07:55 AM   #39
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In my opinion, the swastika means nothing other than... well as symbol of a nation that fell years ago... It had other meaning before the war.

Heres what wikipedia has to say about the Swastika.

The swastika (from Sanskrit svástika स्वस्तिक) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing () form or its mirrored left-facing () form. Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period. It occurs mainly in the modern day culture of India, sometimes as a geometrical motif and sometimes as a religious symbol. It remains widely used in Eastern religions / Dharmic religion such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
Though once commonly used all over much of the world without stigma, because of its iconic usage in Nazi Germany the symbol has become stigmatized in the Western world, and it has notably been outlawed in Germany if used as symbol of Nazism. Usage of the sign by religious groups is tolerated. Many modern far right and neo-nazi groups such as Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging or Russian National Unity use stylised swastikas or similar symbols.

so it use to be a good thing, a religious symbol, then it was turnt into the National german workers partys symbol.
So what, maybe in a thousand years sensibilities in europe will be so that the use of the svastika symbol won't be given second thought (and everybody will think of its religous symbolism forgetting what it actually represented for 15 years in the 20th century). But right now, not even a century has passed since the end of WW2 and all of the atrocities comitted by a regime whose symbol is the svastika.
These things just don't dissapear overnight you know ?
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