History of Swastika Understanding It's TRUE Meaning

[YoshidaYui]

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. My dad took me to the Springfield. MA armory in the late 60s.

Saw a lot of Native American Indian Winchester rifles. A bunch had the swastika, but they were opposite of the Nazi swastika...a good luck symbol.

[Mister Ed]

2. It's remarkable that the symbol was common to both Asian and Indigenous American cultures.

I remember a time when my 6th-grade class took a field trip to the museum. At one point, we saw an exhibit of pre-Columbian native artifacts, some of which were decorated with swastikas. The museum tour guide pointed those out, and explained that they had nothing to do with Naziism, having predated the Nazis by a thousand years or more.

[Chainfire]

3. The historical aspects aside, the Nazis ruined it for the future.

Some time back, and I don't remember the source, I read that the universality of the symbol probably arose from an astrological phenomena; as I remember it was suggested that it was a spiral galaxy or perhaps a nova that suddenly appeared in the sky.

The same has happened to other symbols lately. I can no longer signal OK with my fingers, and I had to toss my Hawaiian print shirts. The far right would screw up a wet dream...

[geardaddy]

4. During the Second Sino-Japanese War

which coincided with WWII, the Chinese version of the Red Cross was the Red Swastika Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Swastika_Society

Regarding Nazis in India, there was actually a faction in WWII who sided with the Empire of Japan and Germany who proposed independence from the UK. Subhas Chandra Bose was allied with both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose