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Nazi myth that the lightning flashes of the SS were 'ancient runes' is debunked [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 14, 2017 | Allan Hall

Posted on 03/14/2017 8:56:39 AM PDT by C19fan

he Nazis claimed the double lightning flashes of the SS were 'ancient runes' that extolled the supremacy of the German race. But a new TV documentary has debunked the myth, revealing that Heinrich Himmler paid £1 to an out-of-work illustrator to create them. Walter Heck designed the SS symbol in 1929 and is believed to have copied it from the signs on electricity pylons in the country at the time.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: hochspannungsleitung; nazis; ss

1 posted on 03/14/2017 8:56:39 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Oh, horsecrap!


2 posted on 03/14/2017 8:59:04 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: C19fan
...electricity pylons...

Hmmm, maybe Sarah was onto something. She's a jeanyus after all.

3 posted on 03/14/2017 9:01:43 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: C19fan

Beer hall fake news!


4 posted on 03/14/2017 9:02:05 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: C19fan

Nazis made up a lot of crap.


5 posted on 03/14/2017 9:02:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: C19fan
The SS runes are based on ancient runes.

That fact that a local artist was paid 2.5 Reichmarks to make up the SS sympbol based on them (Ger and Eif) is not new news, but has been known for years.

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


6 posted on 03/14/2017 9:06:29 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: dfwgator

“Nazis made up a lot of crap.”

WRONG!! How can you say that?

Didn’t you know that the notsies were socialists, and that socialists never lie? Want proof? Ask obama or Hitlery.


7 posted on 03/14/2017 9:07:20 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: C19fan

Ping


8 posted on 03/14/2017 9:08:41 AM PDT by Lord Castlereagh
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To: redfreedom

I like that...

The media were certainly “not-sees” during obama


9 posted on 03/14/2017 9:49:55 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE REPEAL THAT IS WORSE THAN KEEPING IT ONE MORE DAY***)
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To: SkyPilot

Since my father was French, as a kid every time I saw “Monte Carlo SS” on a car, I kept thinking of Provencals in black uniforms.


10 posted on 03/14/2017 9:55:27 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: dfwgator
Nazis made up a lot of crap.

They sure did. But some people believe in the not-made-up idea that the Nazi party was infested with pedophiles. Seems plausible, especially when considering that the Nazi Youth movement was comprised mostly of young boys.

11 posted on 03/14/2017 10:24:22 AM PDT by floozy22 (Edward Snowden - American Hero)
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To: C19fan

I always assumed they were (highly) stylized “S-es” meant to suggest lightning bolts.


12 posted on 03/14/2017 10:27:45 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: C19fan

13 posted on 03/14/2017 10:31:54 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: Sirius Lee

Yes, such a brilliant mind.


14 posted on 03/14/2017 11:00:01 AM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

So can KISS use their logo in Germany now?


15 posted on 03/14/2017 11:09:53 AM PDT by MGG
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To: dfwgator

They are a constant source of inspiration for the democrat party.


16 posted on 03/14/2017 11:40:45 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: floozy22
But some people believe in the not-made-up idea that the Nazi party was infested with pedophiles.

When Ernst Rohm moved to Bolivia in the 1920s and served as an advisor to the Bolivian army he bragged about "buggering" every cadet in that army.

17 posted on 03/14/2017 11:49:50 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: C19fan
A troubled tadpole, Pepe was rejected by the Image and video hosting by TinyPic Vienna art institute then led astray by water snakes.
18 posted on 03/14/2017 4:57:22 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: redfreedom; nhale
Didn’t you know that the notsies were socialists, and that socialists never lie? Want proof? Ask obama or Hitlery.

Just so. While stationed in Germany during the 1960's and serving as my battalion's interpreter, imagine my surprise to learn on going through newspaper back issues from the 1930's that nazi was the Communists' term for Hitler's National Socialist German Worker's Party, NSDAP by its German initials. I then learned that the NSDAP party leaders and members referred to themselves as NaSo's in those days, National Socialists. Note the large red background of their flag, meant to help draw recruits from Germany's *red* Socialist splinter groups in their early street-fighting days.

So go ahead, call them *not-sees* all you want, and help the Communists spread their propaganda.

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19 posted on 03/14/2017 7:21:42 PM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: C19fan
Walter Heck designed the SS symbol in 1929 and pis believed to have copied it from the signs on electricity pylons in the country at the time.

It still is. Indeed, at some spots on the East German [DDR] border, you could see it from our side, hangiing from the razor wire stoppeldratt electrifified border fence:Hochspannungsleitung! Lebensgefahr! Approximately, High Voltage! Danger to life!

The signs did not face the Eastern where border crossers would be coming from. They were meant for workers and guards working on the mine fields between the fences.


20 posted on 03/14/2017 7:53:36 PM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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