The swastika was a Hindu symbol long before the Nazis commandeered it.
Correct. The Buddhists in Japan use it as well. Simple difference: The Hindu and Buddhist versions point counterclockwise and are level at the top. The nazi version slopes down at the top and points clockwise.
yup
white sheets were for ghosts before the democrat kkk commandeered it
Go to an old cemetery in So. Vietnam’s Mekong Delta and you will see the swastika, often in a reversed direction, on old tombstones. I did and was tempted to ask if any old Nazis had lived there but I knew something about Buddhist religious markings (saw enough there) so, as a Jew, I didn’t get my knishes in an uproar.
Now, here’s a “Casablanca” type story about my visit to the whole Mekong Delta region. I came back from visiting an American military advisors’ mortar emplacement at the foot of Chu Phu Mountain, just east of the Plain of Reeds in Chau Doc Province to Bac Lieu City/Province.
Ended up at a 3rd rate hotel in the restaurant where I met a Jewish MP from NY and a Jewish doctor from the states on an AMA 6 month volunteer tour oft duty. A few more Jews and we could have held a service.
To quote Humphrey Bogart in Casablance, “Of all the gin joints in the world, we got three Jews at one table in the Mekong Delta”. “Waiter, Kreplach and chicken soup, pour favore”.