"In my free time I practiced singing in the choir of the monastery church at Lambach...."
ADOLF HITLER - Mein Kampf
"Visitors to the monastery have observed one curious and memorable detail. In six or seven places - over the ornamental gateway, over a stone well, and over some of the stalls in the abbey - a swastika appears. The swastika was included in the coat of arms of Abbot Theodorich Von Hagen [Hagn], who rules over the monastery in the fifties and sixties of the last century. In German a swastika is a Hakenkreuz ( hooked cross), and evidently the abbot regarded it as a pun on his own name, the difference between Haken and Hagen being so small that it might passed unobserved. The abbot's swastika inspires no fear: it was carved delicately and simply, and the only emotion it conveys is one of suprize that an abbot should amuse himself with such an obvious pun. Adolf, who was now living in a well-desgined building at the corner of the Linzerstrasse and the Kirchengasse, could see the swastika from the window of his father's appartment, and he saw it more clearly when he went to school. Abbot Thedorich Von Hagen's swastika was probably the ancestor of the Nazi Hakenkreuz"
ROBERT PAYNE - The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
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The Hakenkreuz or Hooked Cross has nothing to do with the holy and auspicious symbol of Swastika used by Hindus. Don’t confuse and defame by equating Hitler’s Hakenkreuz or Hooked Cross with Hindu symbol of Swastika
ReplyDeleteSwastikas has been in Europe for thousands of years.
DeleteThe author is simply noting how Hitler may have been influenced by the Abbey's religious symbols. There's absolutely nothing in the text that suggests the Hindu swastika and Hitler's "hooked Cross" are one and the same.
ReplyDeleteBro, Hindus have no special claim to the Swastika. Nothing was taken from them. It has been a part of human cultures since time immemorial. Get over yourself and learn some history before commenting on it.
ReplyDeleteThe word Swastika itself originates from Sanskrit(Sva + Asti) in Hinduism. If you insist Hindus have no special claim to the symbol, then it should be called something more generic. In fact, based on the region it is found in or connected to, names such as gammadion, fylfot, Hakenkreuz, etc. can be used, and only those affiliated with Hinduism should be called a Swastika. Same with Manji in Japan and so on.
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