German theme park shuts down ride that looks like 'flying swastikas'

Fox News ^ | August 22, 2019 | Nicole Darrah

[ElkGroveDan]

In Germany, of all places. Maybe their brains are hard wired that way. German kids probably make those shapes when they play with their food.

[fieldmarshaldj]

[Vaquero]

[irishjuggler]

Man, I was expecting some you-gotta- strain-to-see-it paranoid fantasy... but, nope, those really do look like swastikas. Oops.

[EvilCapitalist]

I Lol at your tagline.

[Codeflier]

I guess they hate Native American tribal symbols and wanted to make sure they were erased from memory.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Yeah, I don’t think I want to ride in a flying swastika.

[Inyo-Mono]

When I was a kid back in the 1950s, the street lamps in town had swastikas carved into the stone base of each one. This was right after WWII. Since they were put up in the early ‘30s I’m sure they were just Native American symbols at the time.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Why can't they let this go? It's a 4000 year old symbol.
If it's not aligned with the Nazi's it isn't the nazi's.

[Vaquero]

Or East Indian symbols. The original aryans

[madison10]

Whoops.

[RedStateRocker]

Makes my stomach go in little knotsies just looking at it.

[colorado tanker]

Until I read this thread I didn’t know what 88 is slang for. I guess I don’t make a very good white supremacist.

[piasa]

Well... the tiny eagle feet are cute

[Clay Moore]

There were a lot of compressed gas cylinders (oxygen bottles etc) produced in Germany in the 30’s that ended up in the US. They had it stamped into the necks along with all of the writing.

Later they were re-stamped with a tool that makes it into 4 connected boxes.

If you are standing around the cylinder yard for a few hours bored out of your mind because they didn’t get your order pulled you can still find un-stamped and stamped ones.

[marktwain]

When I was a kid back in the 1950s, the street lamps in town had swastikas carved into the stone base of each one. This was right after WWII. Since they were put up in the early ‘30s I’m sure they were just Native American symbols at the time.

We have them cast into locks on the Colorado river in Yuma. Same thing. They predate the NAZIs.

[piasa]

Looks like TWO flying swastikas

[marktwain]

There were a lot of compressed gas cylinders (oxygen bottles etc) produced in Germany in the 30’s that ended up in the US. They had it stamped into the necks along with all of the writing.

We used some cylinders that were made during WWI at Yuma Proving Ground! Good steel!

[Jet Jaguar]

Raton. NM. Swastika Hotel.

[elcid1970]

In an Army museum there is a case dedicated to the Lafayette Escadrille of WWI. One souvenir was a piece of original fuselage fabric depicting an Indian head in a feather bonnet. The earpiece featured a swastika.

Teachers provided kids with authentic symbols of Indian tribes, for Halloween costumes. I chose the swastika. Nobody called me a Nazi and this was in 1957.