The vision of a swastika inevitably leads us to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. But the cross already existed when the leader of that dictatorial regime arrived with his military paraphernalia in black, white and red. Actually, it has a long history. The Spastic was used at least 5,000 years before Hitler and yours will design the Nazi flag.
The Gamada Cross (Hakenkreuzin German) is prohibited in Germany for obvious reasons. In 2007, this country tried to prohibit the display of the swastika throughout the European Union. At that time, the practitioners of the Hindu religion joined the proposal. They defended that this cross had been a symbol of peace for thousands of years before the Nazis adopted it for their movement and considered that their prohibition would imply an act of discrimination against Hinduists.
They remembered that Spastic had been a peace symbol for about 5,000 years. That Hitler – who died on April 30, 80 years ago – would abuse the symbol and use it for a terror regime did not mean that it would have to prohibit its peaceful use. According to practitioners of the Hindu religion, doing so would be like prohibiting the cross for the simple fact that the Ku Klux Klan uses burning crosses.
What is Iran today, 7,000 years ago
Susa is located at the bottom of the Zagros Montes, east of the Tigris River, in the southwest of the current Iran. Was One of the most important cities of the Ancient East next. It was an ancient city of Iranian empires Protolamite, Elami, first Persian empire, seleuk and childbirth.
There, for about 7,000 years, The shepherds represented the swastika turning leftpresumably as a number. The oldest archaeological object with a swastika data of the V Millennium a. C. was found in Samarra and it is a clay dish (mud) with female figures that form a gamada cross and scorpions.
In our day, the swastika is a Sacred symbol for Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Odinism. It is common to see it in temples or houses in India or Indonesia. But also in Europe, where it appears in artifacts of European cultures prior to Christianity.
It is still curious that Coca-Cola will use the swastika. It was in 1925 When the company launched a campaign that included a series of promotional items, including some flags shaped like a swastika. The promotional object accompanied the phrase “Drink Coca-Cola in Bottles” (Baby Coca-Cola in Bottle).
Gamada or swastika cross?
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We say Gamada Cruz but that is not entirely exact. The Gamada Cross is characterized by having the arms withdrawn at right angles, but can be configured in two ways. When it turns in the opposite direction to the clock needles it is the sauvastic; When it revolves in the direction of the clock needles it is the swastika or sustic, in which the upper arm points to the right. The swastika comes from Sanskrit suastíka, which literally means “very auspicious”, but it can also mean happily, well -being, successfully, good luck, health or that goes well. So to know the origin of the Gamada cross you have to go far in time and space.
Troy, swastika and aria identity
The history of how the Nazis chose the swastika for what we would call corporate identity today begins at the end of the 19th century. Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the cross -shaped cross where the old Troy was. He related it to similar forms found in ceramic pieces in Germany and his theory was that it was an “important religious symbol of our remote ancestors.”
Already in the twentieth century there is a wide use of this cross. The usual thing was to use it as a symbol of good luck and omen. In fact, for example, the British Rudyard Kipling had a swastika on the deck of all his books Until the emergence of National Socialism made it little convenient.
In the nineteenth century, a theory was developed based on the similarities of the German with the Sanskrit, which defended that the cultures of the Indo River area and the German had some type of connection. “In this way, the belief among the most German nationalist groups began to settle that there had to be a race originally from the Eurasia region – to the one they called” Aria race ” – which gave rise to the German people. According to this theory, German peoples descended from a higher race, A race that had a past and symbols such as swastika, “explains Eduardo Saldaña, In the world order.
Schliemann’s interpretation and others made This cross was seen as a symbol of “Aria Identity” for the movement Völkischa German ethnonationalist current that manifested from the end of the 19th century to the Nazi era. This appears in writings of Émile-Louis Burnouf or the German poet Guido von List, who considered the swastika as a symbol only Aryan.
“This conjecture of the Aria Cultural Ancestry of the German people is probably one of the main reasons why the Nazi party formally adopted the swastika as its symbol in 1920,” reads in the Holocaust encyclopedia. In his book My fight, Hitler referred to the swastika as the symbol of the “struggle for the victory of the Aryan man.”
The fact is that Nazis adopted the swastika in 1920. Some authors argue that what inspired Hitler to use the swastika as a symbol of the German National Workers’ Party (NSDAP) was its use by Thule Society since there were connections between them and the German Workers Party (DAP).
The flag of a dentist
In his book The promotion and fall of the third ReichWilliam Shirer tells that numerous designs that suggested to Hitler the party members invariably included a swastika. In My fightHitler details that a dentist from the Bavarian city of Starnberg – probably Friedrich Krohn – had created a very similar design that probably influenced his.
That dentist delivered a design for a flag that “was not bad at all and very close to mine,” said the Nazi leader. That flag was “a swastika on a black-white-red” background. ” Apparently, “Hitler insisted on a party flag that I could compete with the Red Cold Communist Banner. “
Hitler insisted on a party flag that could compete with the Red Cold Communist Banner “
Another witness of that design was Anton Drexler, one of the founders and the original leader of the German Workers Party, who became, after Hitler’s adhesion, in the NSDAP or Nazi party. “We wanted something red enough to overcome Herod,” He recalled, something that would overcome the reds but “quite different.”
However, the Nazis were not the only ones to use the swastika in Germany. After World War I, several nationalist movements of the extreme right adopted the swastika as a symbol. They associated it with the idea of a racially “pure” state. As the Holocaust encyclopedia points out, when the Nazis obtained control from Germany, the shoeshic connotations had changed forever.
