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The Nazis' principal symbol was the swastika, which the newly established Nazi Party formally adopted in 1920. [1] The formal symbol of the party was the Parteiadler, an eagle atop a swastika. The black-white-red motif is based on the colours of the flags of the German Empire.
Many Nazi flags make use of the swastika symbol; [4] however, the swastika is not always used in connection with the Nazi Party movement or of the German Third Reich or the combined German military of 1933–1945. Outside of Nazism, use of swastikas pre-dates the German Third Reich by some 3,000 years. [5] [6]
The design of the Nazi flag was introduced by Hitler as the party flag in mid-1920, roughly a year before (29 July 1921) he became his political party's leader: a flag with a red background, a white disk and a black swastika in the middle.
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 American ones.
Although the swastika was a popular symbol in art prior to the regimental use by Nazi Germany and has a long heritage in many other cultures throughout history - and although many of the symbols used by the Nazis were ancient or commonly used prior to the advent of Nazi Germany - because of association with Nazi use, the swastika is often ...
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 ...
A high school in Hsinchu accidentally installed a Nazi-appropriated swastika in their school pond instead of the intended Buddhist symbol. As a temporary fix, they placed plants over the swastika. [15] The religious community has been trying to reappropriate the swastika, which is supposed to be a peace symbol that has been corrupted by Hitler ...
This is why even those sympathetic to the Palestinian cause should cringe at this misrepresentation. Nazi Germany orchestrated the systematic genocide of 6 million Jews, driven by an ideology of ...