It's been used all over the place really. Southern Asia has it a symbol of good luck, as did the airforce of Finland, and it was popular in pre-nazi America. Widely used in buddhism as some sort of concept for "eternity" and in hinduism for peace and good fortune. Unless I did my research wrong...
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Ah yes...I think it was the Hindu one I was thinking of. I think I perhaps heard that Hitler stole it from the indians. It was a long while ago, I think I heard about it from TV. I could be wrong.
Evf 
I have a picture of a Hindu temple with the swastika above its entrance. It's really cool to hit someone over the head with when they think it is something a Nazi invented.
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I heard hitler took it from hindus. Is this true? Evf
The swastika in itself is used throughout the world. It is very hard to determine where he got it from, it could be he just dreamt it up, though originality was not his forte. The most common explanation is that he derived it from Odinism, as he borrowed quite a lot from Viking religion anyway.
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Ah right....maybe on the TV program I saw Hinduism was just one example. Perhaps it suggested more. Maybe they don't know....
Sounds like it could be viking then.... So this symbol was really popular over the world and then it was stolen by Hitler? Shame. Evf
Stolen is a big word. Anyone could use the symbol for its own purposes, it's not like it was copyrighted. What is a shame is Nazism perverting a symbol in such a way no-one can ever use it again without associating itself to national-socialism and its atrocities.
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Unless you're in southern asia. My psychology teacher lived down there for a number of years and ended up with a house full of swastikas as they had a different meaning. When he came back to the UK however, he had to leave the swastikas behind
 Unless he lied to me.. (December 21, 2008 at 10:28 am)leo-rcc Wrote: Stolen is a big word. Anyone could use the symbol for its own purposes, it's not like it was copyrighted. What is a shame is Nazism perverting a symbol in such a way no-one can ever use it again without associating itself to national-socialism and its atrocities.Yeah. I just mean stolen because what he used it for!! I needed emphasis and I tried to do it in a word or two :| He certainly messed up the symbol. But I guess the thing is, perhaps he didn't think he was perverting it? He was deeply evil. But didn't he think he was totally righteous? Or did he know he was an evil shit and he didn't care? I guess we'll never know for sure. But we can have an idea, right? Or not? Evf
I don't know if you never read Mein Kampf but in my opinion he never considered that what he did was wrong. He was absolutely convinced that he was doing the German people a huge service and was 100% convinced the expansion of Germany was necessary.
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