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A Warning to the Hindus is a 1939 booklet by Savitri Devi.It was written to further Indian nationalism by way of Nazi ethics and spirituality. Savitri believed the Indian people to be of Aryan descent, and thus sought to promote explicitly Nazi ideals, such as ethnic purity and xenophobia, within India.
The swastika is a symbol with many styles and meanings and can be found in many cultures. The appropriation of the swastika by the Nazi Party is the most recognisable modern use of the symbol in the Western world. The swastika (卐 or 卍) is a symbol used in various Eurasian religions and cultures, and it is also seen in some African and ...
Savitri was a proponent of a synthesis of Hinduism and Nazism, proclaiming Adolf Hitler to have been an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. [5] She depicted Hitler as a sacrifice for humanity that would lead to the end of the worst World Age, the Kali Yuga, which she believed was induced by the Jews, whom she saw as the powers of evil. [3]
The swastika is the ancient East Asian symbol appropriated as the emblem of the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1920s that was turned into a symbol of hate and racism, referred to as the Hakenkreuz ...
Over the past decade, as the Asian diaspora has grown in North America, the call to reclaim the swastika as a sacred symbol has become louder. Asian faiths try to save swastika symbol corrupted by ...
This led to an opposition campaign by Hindu groups across Europe against a ban on the swastika. They pointed out that the swastika has been around for 5,000 years as a symbol of peace. [111] [112] The proposal to ban the swastika was dropped by the German government from the proposed European Union wide anti-racism laws on January 29, 2007. [113]
It remains ambiguous whether keeping Nazi symbolism visible under certain circumstances constitutes agitation against a population group. [13] [14] Finnish usage of the swastika predates Nazi Germany's usage of the Nazi swastika. [66] As of 2024, flags containing the symbol can be found within the Finnish military. Particularly the Finnish Air ...
German völkisch Nationalists claimed the swastika was a symbol of the Aryan race, who they claimed were the foundation of Germanic civilization and were superior to all other races. As the Italian Fascists adapted elements of their ethnic heritage to fuel a sense of Nationalism by use of symbolism, so did Nazi Germany.