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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 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.
Hitler's choice of the swastika as the Nazis' main and official symbol was linked to the belief in the Aryan cultural descent of the German people. They considered the early Aryans to be the prototypical white invaders and the sign of the swastika to be a symbol of the Aryan master race . [ 203 ]
The equilateral cross with its legs bent at right angles is a millennia-old sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism that represents peace and good fortune, and was also used widely by ...
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 .
A work synthesizing the Hindu philosophy of cyclical history with Nazism. Contains biographies of Genghis Khan, Akhnaton and Adolf Hitler. Famous for the claim that Hitler was an avatar of the God Vishnu. 1959 1945 The Impeachment of Man: 978-0-939482-33-7: Animal rights and ecology. 1965 1957–60
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 ...
There are many variations of the symbol in use currently. However, they do not show all the fundamental concepts embedded in the current emblem. For example, JAINA in North America uses a modified version of the standard Jain symbol. It replaces the swastika with Om because the swastika is associated with Nazi Germany there. [4]