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"...The swastika is not part of any religion's traditions..." I beg to differ with you. The swatika is a form of cross. It's been around for a lot longer than Hitler ever was. One story has it that when Hitler was looking for a symbol for the Nazi party, he was in a church and was looking at some of the stained glass windows and saw that cross. He obviously liked it, so he adopted that as the symbol he was looking for. Like the Confederate flag, they are both simple and unoffensive in and of themselves. But since they've been co-opted by a couple of very-less-than-wholesome organizations, they are both reviled and hated. Lord only knows what is next in line to be used in such a manner.

You are right that one version of the swastika has been a religious symbol all over the world for hundreds of years (Christians, Native Americans, Hindus) but I believe that Hitler reversed the swastika. The Nazi swastika is the mirror image of the sacred swastika.

There were a lot of artistic variations of the cross historically. The swastica rotates in the opposite direction of the rare artistic variation of the Christian cross it resembles, if I remember right.