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The swastika is a good luck symbol in Japan. He took it from them.
The first answer is wrong! It is an old latin symbol meaning strengh and prosperity. Hitler used this symbol because he wanted strengh and prosperity for the white race. The swastika also has a long history with the Aryan Nations way before Hitler started using it. There have been old clay pots and writings with this swastika on them found in East Europe that were from hundreds of years ago. These writings also talked about white supremacy; so we know those writings were from white men and not from latin men.
Neither answer is totally wrong. It is a simple geometric symbol used by nearly every culture. In Hinduism it is a holy symbol meaning good luck, the right handed swastika represents the rising sun and is one of the 108 symbols of Vishnu. The left handed swastika (known as the sauvastika) represents the goddess Kali who reigns over magic and destruction. Neither of these are symbols are evil and neither is exactly the swastika Hitler used since he took the noble swastika, inverted it and turned it on it's side.
In Buddhism it appears on many Buddhas representing the wheel of Samsara and rebirth yet again it has been inverted, tilted and people automatically think of Hitler when they see any orientation of the symbol. Buddhism originated in the Hindu tradition so it is not surprising to find it there.
Hitler's regime had a firm belief in the superiority of the Aryan race. There was indeed a race called the Aryans in the Indus valley (note: Hindu is a western term for all religions beyond the Indus Valley Indus=Hindus get it) though Hitler used this symbol it is not evil and we should be aware of the fact that all cultures use this as a simple symbol which is easy to draw.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 9y agoSeveral cultures in the world have used the swastika. But it is most associated with the Nazi party in twentieth-century Germany, and with the anti-semitism and extreme nationalism that the Nazis espoused.
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∙ 13y agoThe swastika used to be a good luck symbol, long before the Nazis, but the Nazis used it as a symbol of Nazism, which was based entirely on the idea of the supremacy of the Aryan race, hence, it has become a symbol of extreme racism.
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∙ 12y agothe swastika meant prosperity, and that is what Hitler wanted for the German people. that is why Hitler used the swastika.
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∙ 11y agogood fortune
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