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The word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit root swasti, which is composed of su 'good, well' and asti 'is; it is; there is'. [30] The word swasti occurs frequently in the Vedas as well as in classical literature, meaning 'health, luck, success, prosperity', and it was commonly used as a greeting.
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 ...
The Elephant Gate entrance at Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen, Denmark decorated with the company's early swastika logo. The Danish brewery company Carlsberg Group used the swastika as a logo [11] from the 19th century until the middle of the 1930s, when it was discontinued because of association with the Nazi Party in neighbouring Germany.
Neo-Nazis — their faces hidden behind red masks — roamed streets in Columbus today, carrying Nazi flags and spewing vile and racist speech against people of color and Jews,” DeWine said.
The swastika since 1945 has been the most significant and notorious of hate symbols, anti-Semitism and White supremacy for most of the world, with roots tracing to the murderous legacy of Germany ...
A restored Me 163B Komet World War II rocket fighter with a historically accurate, low-visibility swastika shown on the fin, as displayed in a German aviation museum in 2005 Participants in a Neo-Nazi march in Munich (2005) resorted to flying the Reichsflagge and Reichsdienstflagge of 1933–1935 (outlawed by the Nazi regime in 1935) due to § 86a.
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 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.