Some definitions I dug out about the Swastika:

1) From dictionary.comSuch a symbol with a clockwise bend to the arms, used as the emblem of the Nazi party and of the German state under Adolf Hitler, officially adopted in 1935.

2) An ancient cosmic or religious symbol formed by a Greek cross with the ends of the arms bent at right angles in either a clockwise or a counterclockwise direction.

3) [Sanskrit svastika, sign of good luck, swastika, from svasti, well-being. See (e)su- in Indo-European Roots.]

Modern day fact:
Swastika is a small community founded around a mining site in northern Ontario, Canada, and today within the municipal boundaries of Kirkland Lake, Ontario.

Swastika is a junction on the Ontario Northland Railway [1], where a branch to Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec leaves the ONR's main line from North Bay, Ontario to Moosonee. The Northlander passenger railway service between Toronto and Cochrane serves a station at Swastika, with connecting bus service to downtown Kirkland Lake.


From wikipedia


The swastika (卐) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles either clockwise or anticlockwise. It is traditionally oriented so that a main line is horizontal, though it is occasionally rotated at forty-five degrees, and the Hindu version is often decorated with a dot in each quadrant; the un-dotted version is considered more formal in Hinduism.

The swastika is a holy symbol in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. In the West, it is more widely known as the badge of the Nazi movement.

The motif seems to have first been used by early inhabitants of Eurasia. However, it was also adopted in Native American cultures, seemingly independently. The swastika is now used universally in religious and civil ceremonies in India. Most Indian temples, wedding, festivals and celebrations are decorated with swastikas. By the early 20th century it was widely used worldwide, and was regarded as a symbol of good luck and auspiciousness.

Since the rise of the National Socialist German Workers Party, the swastika has been associated with fascism, racism, World War II, and the Holocaust in much of the western world. Before this, it was particularly well-recognized in Europe from the archaeological work of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the symbol in the site of ancient Troy and who associated it with the ancient migrations of Indo-European ("Aryan") peoples.[1] Nazi use derived from earlier German völkisch movements, for which the swastika was a symbol of "Aryan" identity, a concept that came to be equated by theorists like Alfred Rosenberg with a Nordic master race originating in northern Europe. The swastika remains a core symbol of Neo-Nazi groups, and is also regularly used by activist groups to signify the supposed Nazi-like behaviour of organizations and individuals they oppose.

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My personal opinion:

People really make too big a deal out of the use of the swastika. So one person messed up the world using that symbol, big deal. Is that less than a decade of terror involving the abuse of an ancient symbol cancel out centuries and milennias of historic symbolism? That just proves how uneducated/ill-informed the general population is about the swastika in general.

As for accusing people who "appear to have Nazi sympathies" of being pro-nazi, seriously, everyone is suppose to have a right to their own opinion and view plus it is not uncommon to have some sympathy for the underdogs of history.

Take world war 1 for example. The Entante and the rest of Europe were all fine about putting the weight of the full fault for world war 1 on the head of Germany and did a pretty good job in washing Germany's dirty laundry. But much is yet to be publisized about their own parts to play. Germany wasn't the only one who seemed 'all out for war' just because they had a large army and all that, every other country involved in world war 1 had their military stocked up as well. How do we know? If the country isn't prepared, there is no way they can go into full mobilization in 3 days.

A side thought: Why is Germany always the one who gets blamed for every large scale war?

And, if World War 1 was also the fault of many other factors and countries, and World War 2 the consequence/continuation from German unhappiness concerning the Treaty of Versailles from World War 1, is Germany really to blame for World War 2 then?