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The fourpointed star, or sun star, denotes, according to Koch (see bibliography), a serious and solemn warning. Compare with  , the logotype for NATO. In this logotype  was combined with  , the symbol used by the recently defeated German Wehrmacht. (NATO was formed in 1949.) But the Americans used the mirror image of the Hakenkreuz and straightened it out a bit to  .
I the Euphrates-Tigris region in the form  represented the highest god, the sun god Shamash.
In Christian symbolism is the crux stellata, the star cross.
Note also that in the form  is the logotype of the biggest bank in the United States, Citicorp.
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