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Post by bullfrog on Apr 22, 2024 14:40:03 GMT -5
They weren't, really. It was more of a Norse thing. I could be wrong but I think the swastika was from Ancient Rome? It was both Rome and India. And Native American. Possibly other cultures as well. I am not aware of Hitler having much of a fascination with India. But Himmler, the head of the SS, did. He carried around a copy of Hindi scripture like a Christian might a copy of the Bible. The caste system was (maybe still is?) very racist and the top of caste of Indian society was light skinned. The light-skinned Indians were called “Aryans.” The greater weight of the evidence is that Germany’s use of the swastika was from Rome. That India had a light skinned caste of “Aryans” that may have been the ancient descendants of Europeans, and that culture used swastikas, was evidence the Germans used to prop up the historicity of their world-view. If you ever saw the movie “7 Years In Tibet,” the mostly unspoken premise of that movie is that Brad Pitt’s character was sent by the Nazis to Tibet to find evidence of an ancient advanced Aryan civilization up in the mountains.
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Post by Tarponator on Apr 22, 2024 14:44:55 GMT -5
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