I know you probably know this, but the swastika was widely used in the US as a good-luck symbol before Hitler appropriated it for the Nazis. I have a pre stamped envelope from the US Canal Zone in the 20s with swastikas surrounding the main design.
And while we rightly remember Hitler for the monster he was, he did achieve some of his goals. The Jews were effectively removed from Europe and Britain ceased being a world power. For all of its valiant efforts fighting Hitler, Britain lost its Empire and a great deal of its wealth.
Time wise, it is interesting to contemplate their veto on Israel’s right to become a country again. It is biblical that it would happen and they took the wrong turn.
Until the mid 1930’s the US 45th Division had a Swastika shoulder patch.
Jackie Kennedy was born in 1929, so the swastika was already appropriated by the NSDAP by the time she was born, never mind the time the photo was taken.
45th ID used a swastika as their shoulder patch until the 1930s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)
I know you probably know this, but the swastika was widely used in the US as a good-luck symbol before Hitler appropriated it for the Nazis.
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Kind of like the queers appropriating the rain bow and the word “gay”.
The swastika, often in a reversed arms configuration, is an old Buddhist symbol. Saw them on graves in S. Vietnam.
I believe the Hindus might also have used them on their monuments.
If you slightly rearrange a swastika by realigning its arms, it become THE HAMMER AND SICKLE.
Surprise! Surprise! said Gomer Pyle.