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Article #849Where do swastikas come from, mommy?
From: ja... Jacob Rose
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 14:02
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 14:02
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dou...@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Russ Doucet) writes: >BTW the other swastika, the one in the game is representative of some indian >tribe somewhere which is wherer the nazis actually got the idea from to >make their own from but my details on this aspect are sketchy. Actually, the clockwise swastika, the one used by the Nazis, and still in use by other fools who represent similar views, was an old tribal Germanic symbol for good luck. Fortunately for civilization, it didn't work for the Nazis. :) jacob rose..........................@csugrad.cs.vt.edu e v o l u t i o n i s b e a u t i f u l 224 payne hall virginia tech blacksburg virginia 24060-0008.......703/232-5955
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