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Buddhism

AmyDeLune

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2. The Nazi Swastika is backwards

Reply to navarth (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 10, 2012, 08:31 PM

Oct 2012

Hitler flipped it, I don't remember why, but before it was appropriated by Nazis it was (and still is) a symbol of good luck and fortune. Some thought that his reversal of the swastika (thus reversing fortune) is one of the things that brought about the fall of the Third Reich.

If you look at pre-World War II buildings you'll often see swastikas in the designs.

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Tibetan Buddhist statue carved from iron meteorite [View all] ellisonz Oct 2012 OP

and a backwards swastika at that!! how strange navarth Oct 2012 #1

The Nazi Swastika is backwards AmyDeLune Oct 2012 #2

I believe you, but navarth Oct 2012 #4

I met a real NAZI, the real thing, on a train out of Vienna some years ago. JDPriestly Oct 2012 #3

All part of their Aryan race nonsense... ellisonz Oct 2012 #6

I was literally shaking. And this guy was on a commission or council in the town in which JDPriestly Oct 2012 #8

"If the anti-Israel DUers had heard this man, they would agree with me about Israel." greiner3 Oct 2012 #9

I stand by my statement. JDPriestly Oct 2012 #13

Another tidbit from history - the Kaaba stone in Mecca is a fragment left from the meteorite Hestia Oct 2012 #5

I had no idea .. proud patriot Oct 2012 #7

Little info on the Swastika Saviolo Oct 2012 #10

American Pueblo Indians occasionally used the reverse swastika as a decorative byeya Oct 2012 #11

This is interesting. Explains something I've wondered about since childhood. classof56 Oct 2012 #12

Buddha statue: Possibly fake, still from space ellisonz Oct 2012 #14

very interesting - thanks for posting geckosfeet Oct 2012 #15