Nasty wrote:Well technically since the Nazi Swastika is a reverse of the cultural Swastika from Asia, it does actually represent Nazis.
That's certainly true, the Swastika
does represent the Nazi party, but that's not all it's represented, in both forms, in the Western 20th century.
http://www.gosai.com/krishna-talk/80-sw ... cross.html
I hate to link Wikipedia, but this article is heavily cited:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_us ... ted_States
There's even a movement to end the disposition:
http://reclaimtheswastika.com/
As an anecdote, you guys remember
Snap Cubes?
In third grade, during recess myself and a friend made what we considered to be "ninja stars" out of Snap Cubes. Given the central topic of this post, the conclusion the majority of you are surely holding right now as to what form these "ninja stars" took is most likely accurate. Let's be clear, I was 8 or 9 years old and had never seen a swastika in my life. My teacher saw these and flipped a lid, I vaguely remember her actually getting hysterical--she was definitely irate. Being a German boy in America shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall probably didn't help. I thought we were in trouble for making "weapons", haha.
Either way, the next day my ninja star was displayed to the entire class followed by being subjected to the Disney propaganda film, "
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi"
How ironic, eh?
I'm glad I was further ignorant even after seeing it, along with all of my classmates. Had something happened like this a few years later, it might have actually caused tension between myself and my classmates. At least, I don't remember it affecting me. Maybe I blocked that part of the memory out of self-preservation.
I have to assume my parents never knew about this incident, and especially about showing that film.
If you get upset at seeing geometric shapes, remember the story of this 8 year old.