The Nazi symbol is not the same as the ancient Hindu symbol.
The swastika symbol is now irredeemably tainted by its use by the Nazis in World War II. But it is also one of the oldest symbols in the world and, for most of history, it's had entirely different meanings. The symbol has been known by several names. The word"swastika" — from the Sanskrit word"svastika," meaning something like"blessing" or"good fortune" — is how it's best known today.
In every case, the symbol had four legs at right angles to one another , each of which led to another right angle, often ending in straight lines but sometimes in curved lines, he said. Adolf Hitler then selected the right-facing hakenkreuz in 1920 as the central emblem on a new flag for his National Socialist German Workers Party — the"Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei," or"Nazis" for short. But the symbol wasn't called a swastika until later — the first version of Hitler's book"Mein Kampf," published in 1925, called it a hakenkreuz, Heller said.
But its use in many parts of the world is blameless, said Malcolm Quinn, a professor of cultural and political history at the University of the Arts London and the author of"The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol" .
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