Swastika
Kolton Baldwin
Overview of Holocaust
Definition/Background Information
Definition-The swastika is a ancient symbol that is often referred to as a sign of evil and hatred, the symbol is in the form of a cross with the sides bent down at the sides usually all bent sides going to the right that in ancient times were found on coins and Buddhist carvings.
The swastika was used as a sign of devotion to the Nazi party that was typically worn by the Nazi soldiers as a patch somewhere on the clothing. It is now known as a very evil symbol and was banned in some countries for a while because of the evil things that it has represented during the Holocaust. There are also a lot of hidden secrets about the swastika such as It is a very old symbol that used to be known as a symbol of peace, love, care, and all things that had to deal with peaceful and loving things. It was often used by Buddhists in the inscriptions that they had carved into things with other symbols attached to them. It was also used on coins and things of that nature but the reasoning for that is hard to come up with since there was no background information on the swastika before the Buddhists brought it to there religion, but what we do know is it is not used for the same reasoning as it was used for ancient times ago.
Original Research Question
Question- Who use the swastika symbol before it was used by the Nazi party in 1920?
Answer- The swastika was actually used by the Indians of North America and also South America before the Nazis took the symbol over.
Quote
“Ancient documents described the symbol as an ambigram—ambi meaning
“both”—signifying it was legible both ways. And although ambigrams were common in symbology—
swastikas, yin yang, Jewish stars, simple crosses—the idea that a word could be crafted into an
ambigram seemed utterly impossible.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
This quote is important because it shows what the swastika used to stand for before the holocaust and it also shows what a word can stand for and how it is an ambigram.
Citations
MLA:
Smith, Whitney. "Swastika." World Book Student. World Book, 2016. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
APA:
Smith, W. (2016). Swastika. In World Book student. Retrieved from
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar541780
MLA:
Berenbaum, Michael. "Holocaust." World Book Student. World Book, 2016. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
APA:
Berenbaum, M. (2016). Holocaust. In World Book student. Retrieved from
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar259685
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/swastikas