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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 20th-century German Nazi Party made extensive use of graphic symbols, especially the swastika, notably in the form of the swastika flag, which became the co-national flag of Nazi Germany in 1933, and the sole national flag in 1935. A very similar flag had represented the Party beginning in 1920.
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.
The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS. Martin Secker & Warburg. (in English) Eric Kurlander. Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017 ISBN 978-0-300-18945-2; Richard Steigmann-Gall. 2003: The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945. Cambridge ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘This was the most frightening thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life,’ said one member of the synagogue