Grandma Nazi.

[ohiosmith]

[graywarrior]

1. OMG!!!!!!!!!!

[siligut]

2. Just a sweet little old lady baking cookies for everyone

How nice






















I hope it is photo shopped, just to get the ick out of my mind.

[Worried senior]

3. My mother lived in a senior citizen building

in southeast Wi in the 1980's, one woman had swastikas taped to her door.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. For thousands of years, the swastika was a symbol of prosperity and good luck before

the Nazi's co-opted it. About 30 years ago, one the historic buildings in our downtown area was being renovated. When the modern facade was removed, people were quite surprised to find that the building had been originally decorated with painted swastikas when it was built around the turn of the century. It was really strange to see.

[ohiosmith]

5. It's pretty common throughout India. A number of people on a tour group I was with a few years

ago were freaking out at the guide not understanding the meaning or history.

[Arugula Latte]

8. Here's a graphic of some of the ways other cultures depicted swastika-like symbols

[geardaddy]

10. If you go to Buddhist temples in China

a lot of the statues of Buddha have a swastika on the chest.

[Chan790]

6. Not all of her swastikas facing in the right direction.

The two closest to her hand in the second row and the one furthest from the camera in the third row are backwards for Nazism.

The Nazi symbols all face in the opposite direction from the traditional swastika which has fallen out of use since WW II for obvious reason but was a cruciform (a cross-shape) symbolizing among other things health, good luck and immortality which seems to developed organically in most major cultures globally in history. (Going back at-least 5000 years to Sumeria.)

This is what you learn when you're required to take 4 years of theology in HS and 5 more semesters in college. I also took a course in the political theory of the Third Reich which is why I even knew to look at which way they were facing. The Nazis were seriously into the occult, it's unsurprising they'd try to appropriate the power of a historical mystical symbol.

[oneshooter]

14. The backward swastika was also used as the national symbol by the Finnish Air Force in WW2

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=WW2+Finland&qpvt=finnish+air+force+ww2&FORM=RESTAB

Oneshooter

[OffWithTheirHeads]

16. Also seen on Geraldo Revera's forehead.

[Denninmi]

7. Also, the symbol is used by some Native American tribes...

... and its use far predates the Nazis and the 20th century.

We had a controversy over the symbol in a local school building here a few years back. It was put into the tile in the lobby floor in 1926 by a Native American artist. Some people lobbied for it to be removed because of its association with the Nazis, others wanted it to stay because of its history and the fact that the particular usage had nothing to do with Nazis. Ultimately, the school board let it stay, IIRC.

PLEASE don't interpret my comments to be pro-Nazi in any way. I abhor everything about them. Just trying to explain that the symbol has other uses not related to Nazis.

[lastlib]

12. I have a beaded Cherokee necklace, made by...

...my great-great grandmother for her wedding, in 1862. It has two rows of three "swastikas" in the dangle. The "swastika" for Native Americans was a symbol of the Four Winds, representative of all things in life on earth.

[rrneck]

9. Gah!

[jakeXT]

11. A tweet from Gilbert Gottfried

Gilbert Gottfried
@RealGilbert
A Birthday message to Hitler. You're dead and the Jews run the world. Ha ha.
2:29pm - 20 Apr 12 via web

[BlueIris]

13. Ew.

My brain hurts a lot, looking at that.

[Kaleva]

15. And then there's the open oven.