I am sorry but it's true

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[–]hennaojisan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The swastika in the center is correct but the border swastikas are backward, at least according to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP.

[–]Xena[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Of course, there is the left-turning swastika and the right-turning swastika. The swastika of the Nazis was right-turning. But it is amazing that the swastika was not a taboo before the Nazis in the USA.

[–]hennaojisan 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks. The left-turning swastika is used in some Asian countries to indicate Buddhist temples on maps. And you'll find the same icons in the temples.

I have only heard this and cannot verify it: before WWII the Nazi Party was popular enough in the US that some mothers made Nazi uniforms for their boys.

[–]Xena[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Evidence for what I did write in the other post with a picture: "The Brandenburg state authorities, concerned about damage to the region's image and the possibility that the area would become a pilgrimage site for National Socialist supporters, attempted to destroy the design by removing 43 of the 100 larch trees in 1995. However, the figure remained discernible with the remaining 57 trees as well as some trees which had regrown, and in 2000 German tabloids published further aerial photographs showing the prominence of the swastika. By this time, ownership of around half the land on which the trees sat had been sold into private hands, but permission was gained to fell a further 25 trees on the government-owned area on December 1, 2000, and the image was largely obscured." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_swastika In Germany, healthy trees were felled because they were planted in the form of an unwanted symbol - all for national honor, as proof that the Germans are really no longer Nazis. But what good is that? Many Americans and Britons still do not trust the Germans.