how do people feel about the flying swastika

[Helfen]

Before WW2 the first commercially made surfboards were made by Pacific Systems Homes. The name of the board was Swastika Surfboards. see below;

http://www.proswastika.org/e107_images/newspost_images/america_usa_san_clemente_surfboard_5.jpg

http://www.proswastika.org/e107_images/newspost_images/america_usa_san_clemente_surfboard_2.jpg

http://www.proswastika.org/e107_images/newspost_images/america_usa_san_clemente_surfboard_3.jpg

[Bob Loblaw]

There's a town in Ontario Canada named,
you guessed it...... Swastika.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario
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[jwp67]

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[KTPhil]

But those who invented it saw it... it's not a latter-day realization, it was the intent.

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[Helfen]

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[hazetguy]

i see one in this logo......

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[anthracitedub]

Strange how it’s there and it isn’t. Same with the OP....
When I was a teen, the house we lived in had a swastika bricked into the fire place mantle.... never noticed it until one of my friends pointed it out.
A few years back I was in my old town and drove past my old house just to look, I then noticed that a house down the street had one bricked into the chimney on the front facing the street... never noticed it when I grew up there.

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[79SuperVert]

If the logo did not bring up unpleasant associations then I think VW would have kept it. Fact is they chose to replace it.
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[KTPhil]

And, well, ahem...

[KTPhil]

ANd let's not let AT&T off the hook for evil symbolism:

[Glenn]

US Navy building

Forest

Manson

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[Joe 20]

No kiddin' there a lot of swastika's out there. From ancient Egypt, right up to the Lafayette Escadrille (in the original indian bonnet). Hitler didn't invent the symbol, he stole it. Like he stole a lot of other things. Including the lives of millions and millions of people.
If he'd have died in 1938 it would be a really endearing symbol of what was viewed AT THE TIME as a great movement. After all he was Time magazines Man of the Year!! As it is, it represents a really screwed up government and just about total evil. The Nazi swastika has no place on ANYTHING other than a historical vehicle if in fact it was a part of that vehicle (WW2 ME-109 tail for example). Other uses of the swastika as a good luck symbol, such as used by the Boy Scouts about 100 years ago have to suffer because it will always be tainted by the Nazi use.
As to the original question, I wonder if that symbol, the spinning fan part was ever actually used by Volkswagen in production. I know the cog wheel part was (KDF) but wonder about the other part. Don't really know.

[Glenn]

My opinion is:
Any symbol, from Germany during 1933-1945 that looks like a Swastika... is a Swastika.

Nazi Germany knew the power of symbols and exploited their power.

We all know the early history of the VW, so let's not play games and deny its early history as a scam.

Any questions?

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