The History of the Swastika

What is the cultural significance behind the spiral symbol in various societies throughout time? Specifically, what are the similarities that connect these broad civilizations to the spiral symbol and how can one establish an interconnection between the symbol and the collective unconscious? TS AND TRANSITION SENTENCE

When you see a Nazi flag, what do you feel? Many people usually start to feel a little anxiety because they associate very strong negative feelings with the flag. This is because Americans are widely familiar with the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany. However, most Americans are quite less educated about similar atrocities committed in the United States. Case in point: did you know that the Native American population today is a mere 10 percent of what it was before the Age of Exploration (meaning that there population has been decreased 90 percent due to genocide, diseases, etc.) ? Did you know that there was a sterilization movement in the United States that found success in getting their laws passed in state legislation? These less well-known facts are quite similar to actions carried out by the Nazis, such as the holocaust and the sterilization movement that took place in Germany during the 1930’s. Nazi Eugenics and racism was not a unique instance but rather part of a larger global trend of justifying racism through Religion and Biology, as seen in the United States.

Symbols are often used outside of their original context. An excellent example is the Swatiska whose original idea was auspiciousness and “that which is associated with wellbeing. This symbol has been around for over a thousand years in the Hindu, Buddha and Jainism religions and is still used today in eastern parts of the world without any one trying to get rid of it.

How could a group of people can hate on some certain people just because they were born with different skin color or different religion? This question came right through my head right when I have learned the meaning of the Confederate flag and the swastika sign on the Nazi’s flag. I do not believe that under any conditions the display of the swastika sign or the confederate flag should be socially acceptable. Sinjun Wesson is an artist that believe if he present a swastika sign with bright colors and illustrated it with a type of dessert that everybody like, a donut, then he could somehow make the history that came along with the sign vanish and make his art give a positive message. Wesson tries

Most of them disapproved of people getting these numbers tattooed on them. They disapproved because no one knows what they had to go through. Then most people just do it because other people do it. Most people don’t have a family member that was in the Holocaust, they just do it because they think it’s cool. According to the article “ Millennials, stop making the Holocaust about yourself”. An unnamed girl's friend got a tattoo of a number from the Holocaust on his arm, but he didn’t know anything about the Holocaust. He just did it because everyone else was doing it. Most people say they’re doing it to show respect, but they really aren't. They don’t how disrespectful it is. But then in some cases, people do do it to show respect to family members. They still don’t know how disrespectful it really is. In the article, “Young Jews with Holocaust Tattoos: Are they such a bad thing. The article states “Yet here are young Israeli Jews aren’t just tattooing numbers upon their arms; they’re tattooing Holocaust numbers upon their arms visually replicating the suffering of the Holocaust.. Then Jonathan Tobin says that the tattoos should stay only with the victims no children of

The Holocaust was a dark time in human history. It was a time full of discrimination, and a time full of hate. An event that was caused by one man, an Adolf Hitler. In spite of this, the Holocaust, albeit a dark time, inspired artwork of many kinds with many meanings that we still see to this day. Artwork coming from those who lived through it, were inspired by it, respect those who went through it, and by those who mock it.

There is relatively dark shading in the third panel, creating a gloomy mood in the train carriage. The biggest symbol in this scene however, is the swastika. The swastika is a symbol for the german Nazis, as well as war. To the Jews however, the swastika is a symbol of fear,suppression and extermination. In the scene, the third panel uses the swastika as a sign of the German Nazis, while it is used in repetition when the stories of what was happening to the Jews as a background. The background is pitch black, with a white circle and the swastika inside. The use of repetition is to emphasise the demeaning of the Jews, and also functions like a growing moon, that is dawning over the Jews, but is dominant everywhere. However,the swastika originally has vertical and horizontal lines, as a symbol of peace, before it was tilted slightly to be used as a flag for the german Nazis. There is an irony that in the third panel, the flag is folded to look like the original swastika, perhaps suggesting that there is ‘peace’ in the town because there aren’t any

Throughout the years the way people have been seen has changed, before Jewish people were seen as horrible people who were not right in the head and although that has changed people are still hateful towards Jewish people. In the book “The Chosen” the author Chaim Potok shows two jewish boys and how they are raised during World War Two. One boy Danny Sauders is in Hasidic Judaism and the other boy is Reuven Malter who is in Modern Orthodox Judaism. Some things that happen in the book relate to events that are happening currently. Recently there was an event where a gathering of white nationalists had a protest in Charlottesville over confederate monuments being taken down. They showed up with swastika badges and signs that condone the

The star of david was supposed to represent the shape of king David’s shield, the symbol of intertwined equilateral triangles in common one in all six directions. The nightmare that turned into the Holocaust began in Germany under Adolf Hitler’s rules. Under this policy the Germans and their axis partners caused death of many. They will have Jewish wear a sleeve with the star on it and that is how they knew they were Jews.

Peter Madsen, part of the movement said, "We just want people to know that the swastika comes in many other forms, none of which have ever been used for anything bad. We are also trying to show the right-wing fascists that it's wrong to use this symbol. If we can educate the public about the true meanings of the swastika, maybe we can take it away from the fascists” (Campion, "How the World Loved the Swastika - until Hitler Stole It). Despite all of this, Adolf Hitler has forever ruined the original meaning of the Swastika. Freddie Knoller, a man who lived through the Holocaust said he could never see it as anything but bad. He said, "For the people who went through the Holocaust, we will always remember what the swastika was like in our life - a symbol of pure evil,” (Campion, "How the World Loved the Swastika - until Hitler Stole It). The Swastika will always be known above all else as a symbol of that

During the 1930s, under Hitler’s rule, the German people viewed the Jews as the second-class citizen and sub-humans. Hitler and his Nazi Party proclaimed a new racial order known as the Aryans, meaning that the German people were the “master race”. The image in which a man and a woman were surrounded by people and two Nazi soldiers, and the man wore a sign saying “I am a race refiler”. The law proposed by Hitler indicated that an Aryan could not married a non-Aryan. The man violated this law because he married a Jewish woman.The Jews were not equal to German; therefore, marrying an Aryan was forbidden. Limiting Jews’ marriage with Aryans demonstrated that they had lower status than the Aryans, and the Jews would only stain the purity of Aryans,

The power of a sign is mesmerizing, throughout this process I interviewed a diverse range of people and while majority didn’t have much to say on the topic, one lady in particular really gave me some valuable insight on the power of a sign. I asked her if I could use her name in my paper, she said yes. Her name is Samantha Beckford and she is from Africa or “The Motherland” as she likes to call it. We talked for over 3 hours while walking around the Strong Museum viewing all the great things, little did I know that the whole time I was getting a history lesson on the swastika. She told me that the swastika was actually adopted by the Nazi party and not created by the Nazi party. The swastika in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism is a very sacred

It all started just as a project so that the students at Whitwell Middle School could learn more about the Holocaust. The assignment was to show the kids that not everyone is the same as the people in their town. Everyone is different and different can sometimes be good. Everyone has their own opinion on things like clothes, food, religion, and many other things. And the Holocaust mainly started because Hitler and others saw that the Jews had different beliefs and religions. When the project first started, the kids had already probably knew that the Holocaust killed a lot of Jews. And also that Jews had to get tattoos of numbers on their arm, but there was still a lot more to learn about.

Hitler’s ideology also reveals a foundation in earlier anti-Jewish tradition in terms of justifying prejudicial and violent treatment of Jews. Just as early Christian writers justified hostility against the Jews by portraying them as killers of an innocent Christ, Hitler rationalizes discrimination of Jews by blaming them for Germany’s defeat in World War I (Cunningham 54-55). In his speech to a massive audience in 1923, Hitler particularly blames the Jews’ “burning interest in [the] artificial whipping up of hostility” as the cause of the tensions created between Germany and Russia (Adolf Hitler on the Jewish Question 216). Another rather ludicrous notion made by the Nazis for the sake of justifying and propagating antisemitism was the accusation of Jewish blood libels published in a 1934 Nazi newspaper. Utilization of this chimerical allegation was recycled from legends circulating in the middle ages about Jews killing innocent Christian children and using their blood for ritual purposes (Hsia 2).

Once upon a time there were seven sisters, Dictatorship, Autocracy, Monarchy, Anocracy, Oligarchy, Theocracy, and the youngest one, Democracy. Democracy was the fairest of them all, and good-hearted; she married Human Rights and became a great mother to their many children, fair and kind like herself.