The Swastika Outside Germany

Author : Donald M. McKale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0873382099

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The Swastika Outside Germany by Donald M. McKale Pdf

"The swastika () (Sanskrit: ? ?M ?5 ?8 ?M ?$ ?? ??) is an equilateral cross with four arms bent at 90 degrees. The earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization, Ancient India as well as Classical Antiquity. Swastikas have also been used in various other ancient civilizations around the world. It remains widely used in Indian religions, specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, primarily as a tantric symbol to evoke shakti or the sacred symbol of auspiciousness. The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good" or "auspicious," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix. The swastika literally means "to be good". Or another translation can be made: "swa" is "higher self", "asti" meaning "being", and "ka" as a suffix, so the translation can be interpreted as "being with higher self". In East Asia, the swastika is a Chinese character, defined by Kangxi Dictionary, published in 1716, as "synonym of myriad, used mostly in Buddhist classic texts", by extension, the word later evolved to represent eternity and Buddhism. The symbol has a long history in Europe reaching back to antiquity. In modern times, following a brief surge of popularity as a good luck symbol in Western culture, a swastika was adopted as a symbol of the Nazi Party of Germany in 1920, who used the swastika as a symbol of the Aryan race. After Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, a right-facing 45° rotated swastika was incorporated into the Nazi party flag, which was made the state flag of Germany during Nazism. Hence, the swastika has become strongly associated with Nazism and related ideologies such as fascism and white supremacism in the Western world, and is now largely stigmatized there due to the changed connotations of the symbol. Notably, it has been outlawed in Germany and other countries if used as a symbol of Nazism in certain instances . Many modern political extremists and Neo-Nazi groups such as the Russian National Unity use stylized swastikas or similar symbols."--Wikipedia.

Author : Malcolm Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134854950

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The Swastika by Malcolm Quinn Pdf

Despite the enormous amount of material about Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original contribution examines the popular appeal of the archaic image of the swastika: the tradition of the symbol.

Author : Steven Heller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781581157895

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The Swastika by Steven Heller Pdf

"Forces even the most sophisticated to rethink and rework their ideas of how images work in the world."--School Library Journal.* Traces the history of the swastika, from religious symbol to reviled symbol * More than 175 illustrations * Powerful examination of the impact of one graphic symbol on society. This acclaimed examination of the most powerful symbol ever created is now available in paperback. The rise and fall of the swastika, and its mysteries and misunderstandings, are fully explained and explored. Readers will be captivated by the twists and turns of the symbol’s fortunes, from its pre-Nazi religious and commercial uses, to the Nazi appropriation and misuse of the form, to its contemporary applications as both a racist and an apolitical logo. In a new afterword, author Steven Heller discusses the controversy around ideas to ban the symbol and public reaction to the book since it was first published. This is a classic story, masterfully told, about how one graphic symbol can endure and influence culture for generations. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Author : Matthew S. Seligmann,John McDonald
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058216337

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In the Shadow of the Swastika by Matthew S. Seligmann,John McDonald Pdf

Written by experts on 20th century and German history, this is a well illustrated account of what it was like to live under the Nazi regime. It looks at all aspects of life including the period in the early 1930s when Nazism brought economic benefits and before the full horror of the racial ideology was revealed.

Author : Kristie Macrakis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Germany
ISBN : 9780195070101

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Surviving the Swastika by Kristie Macrakis Pdf

A study of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft in the Nazi period. Ch. 3 (p. 51-72), "From Accommodation to Passive Opposition, 1933-35," discusses the dismissal of Jews from the various institutes. Max Planck tried to protect his Jewish colleagues from the Nazi authorities, but in vain. The only act of resistance undertaken by the scientists was the Fritz Haber Memorial Ceremony in 1935 (Haber, a Jewish scientist, died in Switzerland in 1934); the Nazis reluctantly allowed it to be held.

Author : David Conley Nelson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780806149745

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Moroni and the Swastika by David Conley Nelson Pdf

While Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally rewritten within the confines of the Church’s history—for good reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika. A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance. The Twelfth Article of Faith and parts of the 134th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants function as Mormonism’s equivalent of the biblical admonition to “render unto Caesar,” a charge to cooperate with civil government, no matter how onerous doing so may be. Resurrecting this often-violated doctrinal edict, ecclesiastical leaders at the time developed a strategy that protected Mormons within Nazi Germany. Furthermore, as Nelson shows, many Mormon officials strove to fit into the Third Reich by exploiting commonalities with the Nazi state. German Mormons emphasized a mutual interest in genealogy and a passion for sports. They sent husbands into the Wehrmacht and sons into the Hitler Youth, and they prayed for a German victory when the war began. They also purged Jewish references from hymnals, lesson plans, and liturgical practices. One American mission president even wrote an article for the official Nazi Party newspaper, extolling parallels between Utah Mormon and German Nazi society. Nelson documents this collaboration, as well as subsequent efforts to suppress it by fashioning a new collective memory of ordinary German Mormons’ courage and travails during the war. Recovering this inconvenient past, Moroni and the Swastika restores a complex and difficult chapter to the history of Nazi Germany and the Mormon Church in the twentieth century—and offers new insight into the construction of historical truth.

Author : Scott Eric Lively,Kevin Abrams
Publisher : Old Paths Publications, Incorporated
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Gays
ISBN : 0964760975

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The Pink Swastika by Scott Eric Lively,Kevin Abrams Pdf

In 1995, we published the 1st Edition of The Pink Swastika to counter historical revisionism by the homosexual political movement which had been attempting since the 1970s to fabricate a "Gay Holocaust" equivalent to that suffered by the Jews in Nazi Germany. Fifteen years have passed, but our research into this topic has never stopped.

Author : Robert M. Jarvis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : Gambling
ISBN : 1531012523

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Gambling Under the Swastika by Robert M. Jarvis Pdf

Author : Arnie Bernstein
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250036445

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Swastika Nation by Arnie Bernstein Pdf

In the late 1930s, the German–American Bund, led by its popinjay dictator Fritz Kuhn, was a small but powerful national movement in pre-World War II America, determined to conquer the United States government with a fascist dictatorship. They met in private social halls and beer garden backrooms, gathered at private resorts and public rallies, developed their own version of the SS and Hitler Youth, published a national newspaper and—for a brief moment of their own imagined glory—seemed poised to make an impact on American politics. But while the American Nazi leadership dreamed of their Swastika Nation, an amalgamation of politicians, a rising legal star, an ego-charged newspaper columnist, and denizens of the criminal underworld utilized their respective means and muscle to bring down the movement and its dreams of a United Reich States. Swastika Nation by Arnie Bernstein is a story of bad guys, good guys, and a few guys who fell somewhere in-between. The rise and fall of Fritz Kuhn and his German-American Bund at the hands of these disparate fighters is a sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing, and always compelling story from start to finish.

Author : Jacqueline Klosek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313059186

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The Legal Guide to E-Business by Jacqueline Klosek Pdf

This concise and current guidebook to the legal issues involved with conducting e-business is a one-stop source for both domestic and cross-border laws and regulations. Any business that conducts commerce via a Web site must deal with these issues with regard to numerous situations. This book addresses the legal ramifications of developing and hosting websites, explains how to minimize liability through the use of website Terms of Use and user agreements, explicates specific international issues arising from the conduct of e-commerce, examines online marketing and advertising, online privacy issues, and online intellectual property rights. Entrepreneurs, executives, and corporate counsel from enterprises of all sizes and in all industries will benefit from this useful legal roadmap.

Author : Peter O'Brien
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0415138515

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Beyond the Swastika by Peter O'Brien Pdf

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : K. Semmens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230505308

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Seeing Hitler's Germany by K. Semmens Pdf

Seeing Hitler's Germany is the first fully researched, wide-ranging study of commercial tourism under the swastika. The book demonstrates how effectively the Nazi regime coordinated all German tourism organizations. At the same time, it emphasizes the apparent 'normality' of many everyday tourist experiences after 1933. These certainly helped some Germans and many foreign visitors to overlook the regime's brutality. However, tourism also celebrated the most racist, chauvinist aspects of the 'new Germany', which in turn became a normal part of being a tourist under Hitler. While violence and terror have continued to dominate many recent studies of the Third Reich, this book takes a different view. By investigating a range of 'normal' experiences - such as taking a tour, visiting a popular sightseeing attraction, reading a guidebook or sending a postcard - Seeing Hitler's Germany deepens our understanding of the popular legitimization of Nazi rule.

Author : Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108497497

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The Fourth Reich by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Pdf

The first history of postwar fears of a Nazi return to power in Western political, intellectual, and cultural life.

Author : Katharine Burdekin
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0935312560

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Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin Pdf

In a "feudal Europe seven centuries into post-Hitlerian society, Burdekin's novel explores the connection between gender and political power and anticipates modern feminist science fiction."--Cover.

Author : Hans Massaquoi
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061856600

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Destined to Witness by Hans Massaquoi Pdf

This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir -- an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son of a prominent African and a German nurse, Hans remained behind with his mother when Hitler came to power, due to concerns about his fragile health, after his father returned to Liberia. Like other German boys, Hans went to school; like other German boys, he swiftly fell under the Fuhrer's spell. So he was crushed to learn that, as a black child, he was ineligible for the Hitler Youth. His path to a secondary education and an eventual profession was blocked. He now lived in fear that, at any moment, he might hear the Gestapo banging on the door -- or Allied bombs falling on his home. Ironic,, moving, and deeply human, Massaquoi's account of this lonely struggle for survival brims with courage and intelligence.