Did the Nazi Swastika have a spcific meaning???
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The swastika is a holy symbol in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. In the West, it is most widely known and used as a symbol of Nazism. It is traditionally oriented so that a main line is horizontal, though it is occasionally rotated at forty-five degrees. The Hindu version is often decorated with a dot in each quadrant.\n\n\nThe use of the swastika was associated by Nazi theorists with their conjecture of Aryan cultural descent of the German people. Following the Nordicist version of the Aryan invasion theory, the Nazis claimed that the early Aryans of India, from whose Vedic tradition the swastika sprang, were the prototypical white invaders. It was also widely believed that the Indian caste system had originated as a means to avoid racial mixing. The concept of Racial purity was an ideology central to Nazism though it is now considered unscientific. For Rosenberg, the Aryans of India were both a model to be imitated and a warning of the dangers of the spiritual and racial "confusion" that, he believed, arose from the close proximity of races.\nThus, they saw fit to co-opt the sign as a symbol of the Aryan master race. The use of the swastika as a symbol of the Aryan race dates back to writings of Emile Burnouf. Following many other writers, the German nationalist poet Guido von List believed it to be a uniquely Aryan symbol. When Hitler created a flag for the Nazi party, he sought to incorporate both the swastika and "those revered colors expressive of our homage to the glorious past and which once brought so much honor to the German nation" (red, white and black). He also stated that "the red expressed the social thought underlying the movement. White the national thought. And the swastika signified the mission allotted to us – the struggle for the victory of Aryan mankind and at the same time the triumph of the ideal of creative work which is in itself and always will be anti-Semitic." (Mein Kampf).
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Here is a link for you sweety. Mostly, it is a symbol of acceptence, acceptence of everyone's sexual proclivites, so long as they hurt no one, race,creed,sex, everything that make our community so wonderful. Thats just my personal view.\n\nhttp://jasewells.com/gayicons/#rainbow
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Well, that was a stupid sticker alright!  Only shows that even hippies can be short sighted bigots!
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I was going to give some information on the earlier uses of the swastika by Hindus and Christians, but Wiki tells it better:\nThe swastika (from Sanskrit स्वस्तिक svastika) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles in either left-facing (卍) or right-facing (卐) direction. The swastika is a holy symbol in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. In the West, it is most widely known and used as a symbol of Nazism. It is traditionally oriented so that a main line is horizontal, though it is occasionally rotated at forty-five degrees. The Hindu version is often decorated with a dot in each quadrant.\nThe motif seems to have first been used in Neolithic Eurasia. It was also adopted in Native American cultures, seemingly independently. The swastika is used universally in religious and civil ceremonies in India. Most Indian temples, weddings, festivals and celebrations are decorated with swastikas. The symbol was introduced to Southeast Asia by Hindu kings and remains an integral part of Balinese Hinduism to this day, and it is a common sight in Indonesia. The symbol has an ancient history in Europe, appearing on artifacts from pre-Christian European cultures. By the early 20th century it was widely used worldwide and was regarded as a symbol of good luck and auspiciousness.\nSince its adoption by the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler the swastika has been associated with fascism, racism (white supremacy), World War II, and the Holocaust in much of the Western world. Before this it had seen a resurgence in recognition from the archaeological work of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the symbol in the site of ancient Troy and associated it with the ancient migrations of Indo-European ("Aryan") peoples. He connected it with similar shapes found on ancient pots in Germany, and theorised that the swastika was a "significant religious symbol of our remote ancestors", linking ancient German, Greek and Vedic culture.[1] [2]\nNazi use arose from this idea, developing from earlier völkisch movements, for which the swastika was a symbol of "Aryan" identity, a concept that came to be equated by theorists like Alfred Rosenberg with a Nordic master race originating in northern Europe. The swastika remains a core symbol of Neo-Nazi groups, and is also regularly used by activist groups to signify the supposed Nazi-like behaviour of organizations and individuals they oppose.\nThe word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit svastika (in Devanagari, स्वस्तिक), meaning any lucky or auspicious object, and in particular a mark made on persons and things to denote good luck. It is composed of su- (cognate with Greek ευ-), meaning "good, well" and asti a verbal abstract to the root as "to be"; svasti thus means "well-being". The suffix -ka forms a diminutive, and svastika might thus be translated literally as "little thing associated with well-being", corresponding roughly to "lucky charm", or "thing that is auspicious".[3] The suffix -tika also literally means mark; therefore a sometimes alternate name for swastika in India is shubhtika (literally good mark). The word first appears in the Classical Sanskrit (in the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics)....\nAnd you can read the rest on their site...
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Well obviously Carlos Mencia thinks so no? Are you asking why? I'm not sure, but I'm sure that they definately consider it a racial slur because of maybe the product in their country, in Spanish it could have culturally/slang meant clean. IE: Churchs Chicken, stereotypicals say black people go there alot)\n\nUPDATED: I researched it further by looking up Spick - its a deroggatory work for a hispanic!! so that makes sense your basically calling them a clean spick, understand now? \n\nquote from webpage below: "When I was a kid, "Spic 'n Span" was a synonym for clean. Something has since altered my perception of english slang. This morning, I saw a "Spic 'n Span" bathroom & kitchen cleanser commercial and thought: "What an odd name!" It sounded like a racial slur combined with an architectural term..."
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symbol for life. The nazi's stole their symbol, among many other things
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Just because one sect of people hijacks an emblem or type of uniform used by another, you shouldn't find it disturbing.\n\nThe Nazis hijacked the swastika which had always been a good sign and turned it round to use as their emblem, in which case they were not using the good emblem, they showed that the opposite was what was bad.
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The letter "V" is used by the character V.  It represents his room number in the camps.  He uses Beethoven's 5th when he blows up Parliament, the V sign is basically an upside down Anarchy symbol.  I have not seen the movie, but I have read the comic several times.  Hopefully some of this is useful.
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Ok Swastika itself is not German's symbol. It has been around centuries before Adolf was even born. We have so many Hindu temples (archeological sites) that were dated 600 - 800 yrs ago in our country and they carried swastika symbols on many of their statues or artifacts. \nAbout the Nazi's Swastika, it's just a symbol that Hitler came to modify from another symbol that he saw somewhere in time. He borrowed it and coupled it with menace and hatred to create a holocaust.\nNazi didn't achieve anything, they sacrificed it all for one coward called Adolf Hitler who couldn't even face a failure. The party was aiming for good, until Hitler joined. I guess they put their trust on the wrong man, glad that he is dead.
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Symbols are just that, symbols.\n\nYour analogy is a bit off.  All the buildings and monuments you listed are one of a kind items.  Could someone burn a flag they purchased?  Sure, why not.  Could someone burn "the specific flag" which inspired the Star Spangled Banner?  Not without great repercussions.\n\nI admire your conviction.  Don't think of my disagreement as a criticism but a suggestion to better improve your message of conviction.
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History is repeating itself.\nThat is how the Nazi's began.
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It's the symbol for the punk rock band Black Flag. Four rectangles, the 1st and 3rd high, the second and fourth low. Makes him ever more ME-OW to me!
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It means you're an evil commie pinko\n\nGod bless America
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Trouble is that the swastika -- known as fylfot -- was an ancient Buddhist symbol. So it's impossible to get it out of all the museums, and all the Buddhist temples!\n\nAs for that jerk who compared the swastika to the Jewish star: the Nazis killed lots of Jews, but their main aim was to kill all intellectuals, all smart people. The swastika stood for dictatorship. The Nazis called themselves "socialists" but of course they were the opposite: fascists. \n\nFunnily enough, the reason the USA leads in Nobel prizes now is because all the best German scientists and professors -- and many Jews too -- fled to America.\n\nSo: this jerk is just another Nazi, who would like to impoverish America.
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The Nazi group or National Socialist Party was technically a political group. One of the visions of Hitler was to return Germany to it's former glory and to create an elite Aryan race. Blond hair and blue eyes were one of the defining characteristics. The art and literature parts of the cultural expression were virtually non existent. Since the Nazis burned books and horded art the only "cultural expression" was Nazi propaganda. If the Third Reich didn't want it out then it was deemed illegal. Many people were put in concentration camps and killed during this time for "unauthorized" cultural expression.
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It means 'A honour to those who died, a warning to those who live'\n\nIts from a monument in Dachau where the concentration camps used to be during the Holocaust.
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Sturmabteilung \n \nThe seal of SAThe  Sturmabteilung? (SA, German for "Storm Division", usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP – the German Nazi party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s.\n\nSA men were often known as brownshirts from the color of their uniform and to distinguish them from the SS who were known as blackshirts. Brown coloured shirts were chosen as the SA uniform because a large batch of them were cheaply available after World War I, having originally been ordered for German troops in Africa.\n\nThe SA was also the first Nazi paramilitary group to develop pseudo-military titles for bestowal upon its members. The SA ranks would be adopted by several other Nazi Party groups, chief among them the SS.\n\n\nHistory\n \nHitler addressing SA members in the late 1920sThe term Sturmabteilung originally came from the specialized assault troops used by Germany in 1918 in World War I utilising Hutier tactics. Instead of a large mass assault, the Sturmabteilung were organized into small teams of a few soldiers each. First applied during the Battle of Cambrai, the wider use in March 1918 allowed the Germans to push back British and French lines tens of kilometers.\n\nIn Munich in the fall of 1920, Hitler himself created the Ordnertruppen; a body of muscular Nazis, ex-soldiers, and beer hall brawlers in order to protect his speeches and Nazi Party gatherings from Communist disruptions. It originally functioned as a group of bodyguards to enforce order at Nazi gatherings. It was shortly changed to Sportabteilung, a cover name meaning "Sports section," and came to be known by the initials SA. In late 1921, the name was changed to the final version: Sturmabteilung. Under their popular leader Ernst Röhm, the SA grew in importance within the Nazi power structure, eventually claiming thousands of members. In 1922, the NSDAP created a youth section, the Jugendbund, for young men between the ages of 14 and 18 years. Its successor, the Hitler Youth, remained under SA command until May 1932. The SA carried out numerous acts of violence against socialist groups throughout the 1920s, typically in minor street-fights called Zusammenstöße ('collisions'). The SS eventually took over their original role.\n\n \nA rare, complete set of Nazi S.A. tin soldiers, from the 1940s.After Hitler took power in 1933, the SA became increasingly anxious for power and saw themselves as the replacement for the German army. This angered the regular army (Reichswehr) who already resented the Nazi party, and commonly regarded the SA as 'brown scum'. It also led to tension with other leaders within the party who saw Röhm's increasingly powerful SA as a threat to their own personal ambitions. The SA was also considered a dangerous and radical organization, especially since common SA practice was to swear loyalty to local SA commanders rather than Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party as a whole.\n\nSenior Nazis including Himmler faked a dossier which suggested that Röhm had received payment from the French to carry out a coup against Hitler. At first Hitler refused to believe it, but he was painfully aware that the SA had the power to remove him if it so wished. Röhm was unpopular in the party because others saw his ambition as threatening their own, and because he was a homosexual. Eventually the pressure mounted and Hitler ordered the execution of the leadership of the SA, which took place on June 30-July 1, 1934, on what is known as the Night of the Long Knives. Victor Lutze became the new leader of the SA, and the organization was soon marginalized in the Nazi power structure.\n\nThe SA had its own units during the war, known as Feldherrnhalle. These formations expanded from regimental size in 1940 to a fully-fledged armored corps Panzerkorps Feldherrnhalle in 1945.\n\n\nLeaders of the SA\nThe leader of the SA was kno