Jim
Justified & Ancient
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Must have been Nuremburg then.Nope. Yanks did it.
Must have been Nuremburg then.Nope. Yanks did it.
Nah he's famous state side as well. She was likely an isolated caseI met a woman from the US who had never heard of Bob Marley.
I'd always assumed he was world-famous and not just Commonwealth-famous.
Being a place of worship and what the swastika has come to represent as a result of Hitler's madness you really think they would have covered it up with a carpet or something. Quite a photo.
Another reason to cover the bugger up.The one in York Minster 'rotates' the same way as the Nazi one!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_symbolism
Yes but unfortunately with the Neo-Nazi's running about in the US and Europe, the militant - Racial overtones associated with the swastika are not likely to go away any time soon.It's like Isis now take something wonderful (a peaceful symbol/goddess name) and use it for evil. It's a great shame.
t is generally true that the good luck of the swastika faces the opposite direction from the German hate symbol. Vilefacation of an ancient good luck symbol because of a few pinheaded dimwits just seems wrong.Didn't the good luck symbol have the legs going the other way?
used to see ships on the Manchester ship channel with them on
the bow 40 or so years back.
Jim, it is unfortunate; but what you say is true. Funny, well, sad, how some subhuman jerks can destroy something intended to be good.I still have trouble with it because people in general will fail to see it for it's former meaning. The Nazi's have seen to that don't forget they caused a war that resulted in more death, destruction and murder than any other in history. I believe it will be hard for people to look the other way because one reverse biases the orientation of the Swastika.
I've seen stuff on the Web that suggests 'hooked cross'.Many German dictionaries produced after the war refused to acknowledge the word Swasticka. Old German books of mine define your word as "Crookedhook" which does not seem glorious enough for a bunch of depraved idiots.
Hook?Defining it is not the problem, you brits just don't have a good word for haken.
Defining it is not the problem, you brits just don't have a good word for haken.
This is absolutely correct as Hitler and the SS believed in the worship of the state and party as supreme. He eventually planed on doing away with organized religion and persecuted -executed numerous priest and ministers.By the way the German high command turned their backs on Christianity. Many common citizens did not. But nonetheless the high command was Godless and went down in flames for it.