Swastika quilt donated to Greeley Museums is quirk of history

Denver Post ^ | 06/28/2010 | Monte Whaley

[Daffynition]

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Heil Quilter!

[KarlInOhio]

The 45th Infantry Division's insignia was a yellow swastika on a red field until 1939 when it was changed to a yellow thunderbird on a red field.

Wikipedia (yes, yes, I know the warnings) entry on the 45th ID

[KarlInOhio]

We need the Hitler rant from Downfall with him complaining about how cold he was last night because someone stole his blanket.

[daku]

I am laughing out loud !

[Kirkwood]

LOL

[Daffynition]

[sinanju]

I still like the late astronomer Carl Sagan’s hypothesis in his book “Comet”. That through atmospheric/optical effects the gleaming core of a comet can sometimes take on distinct shapes and that sometime in the eleventh century a comet passed by earth that had a twinkling swastika-like center, seen by all humanity for a few nights.

The swastika pops up spontaneously, simultaneously, in art all around the world at this time—from Australian rock carvings to the Norman Bayeux tapestry.

[smokingfrog]

Quilts of the Third Reich

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Interesting, the 45th seems to have had a propensity to executing prisoners on several occasions, including the Dachau Massacre.
Symbols, even historical ones, seem to have power of their own.

[I still care]

I remember years ago when I was in 1st grade we had a project to draw repeating patterns on a piece of paper.

One of the children drew for his last pattern the form of a swastika. I still remember my teacher, whom I adored, going off the deep end over it.

She made him cut the end of the project off his paper, and gave us all a strong lecture on how it stood for people who did terrible things. She was Jewish, but at the time I didn’t understand. You could see from her face how upset she was.

I didn’t understand what the kid did that was so terrible that he had to cut his project up. In essence it was a good lesson for me. It was the first real awareness I had of PC and how people react to certain things above and beyond.

The lesson obviously struck home because it’s one of most strong first grade memories after all these years.

[thecodont]

I didn’t understand what the kid did that was so terrible that he had to cut his project up. In essence it was a good lesson for me. It was the first real awareness I had of PC and how people react to certain things above and beyond.

Reminds me of the time a kid was reading aloud from a book about seashores, and mispronounced the genus of rockweed/bladderwrack (a variety of seaweed). Severe punishment ensued and the poor kid was so confused...

[TonyInOhio]

The Parker Pen Company, perhaps the largest and most famous maker of fountain pens, produced a pen in 1905 that featured the swastika design:

These are exceptionally rare and quite valuable today, though not because of any connection to the Nazi regime.

[April Lexington]

Quilters, Quilters.... uber alles....

[April Lexington]

In many European countries, it is against the law to fly the swastika," he said. "It still provokes a lot of hard feelings for people."

But here in America, people walk around wearing peace signs all the time! One man's hate is another man's tee-shirt!

[April Lexington]

Those wounds were still pretty fresh back in those days. When I see peace signs on kids clothing, I want to cry...

[Jet Jaguar]

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&q=wastika+hotel+raton+NM&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Swastika Hotel, Raton, NM

[Jet Jaguar]

Native American symbol, Korean symbol, Thai symbol.

All before the National Socialists adopted it.

[hinckley buzzard]

My grandmother had an American Indian blanket that would be a good 150 years old by now, which featured a swastika design in the center.

[Jet Jaguar]

New Mexico State University's yearbook was once called "The Swastika"