Symbol 34:13

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This form of the
swastika, the
closed, diagonally positioned, square-formed variation, was the
emblem of Nazism and Hitler's emblem. In 1920 the swastika was
officially accepted as the main symbol on the party banner.
See the section "The ideographic struggle in Europe during the
1930's in the Appendices for more data.
The swastika had already appeared earlier in the twentieth century as
an anti-Semitic and uniting symbol in Germany and Austria. For other
variations of the swastika, its names, and historical background, turn
to
in Group 15. The
swastika form is associated with the sun and power. The swastika moving in a clockwise direction is
related to
and also to its meaning,
reincarnation, return, and so on.
symbolizes, therefore, national reincarnation.
The American Nazi party uses the same sign but with a circle
at its center:
.
In China we find the form
as a general
superlative and
as a sign for the magnificent number 10,000.



