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What is a swastika and what does it mean.

What is a swastika and what does it mean. By . Alex long. The swastika is a symbol bent at right angles in either rights facing form or mirrored left facing form . The swastika is an ancient symbol that has been used for over 3,000 years. .

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What is a swastika and what does it mean.

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  1. What is a swastika and what does it mean. By . Alex long

  2. The swastika is a symbol bent at right angles in either rights facing form or mirrored left facing form.

  3. The swastika is an ancient symbol that has been used for over 3,000 years.

  4. The swastika is an extremely powerful symbol. The Nazis used it to murder millions of people, but for centuries it had positive meanings. What is the history of the swastika? Does it now represent good or evil?

  5. the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun ,power, strength andluck.

  6. During the following thousand years, the image of the swastika was used by many cultures around the world, including in China, Japan, India, and southern Europe. By the Middle ages, the swastika was a well known, if not commonly used, symbol but was called by many different names: In China - wan In England - fylforts In Germany - Hakenkreuz In Greece - Tetraskelion and gammadion In India - swastika

  7. People ask why did Adolf Hitler chose the swastika for the Nazi and turn it bad. but I haven't really come across one that actually answers there question yet.Hitler was a very religious feller .A Christian in fact. when Hitler walked to church he noticed the main gates to the church had swastika on them he discovered they were an ancient peace symbol, he used this symbol but inverted it tomean just the opposite!

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