Word: swastika
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Live ABC transmissions from the heart of Berlin that showed a new opening in the Berlin Wall probably seemed innocuous to most viewers. But those who looked over Peter Jenning's shoulder couldn't help but notice a large swastika spray-painted on the Wall. It's true that people spray paint swastikas on public walls in the United States. But American never unified behind a symbol which stands for world domination and the annihilation of entire races...
...awake!" He ingeniously added a series of symbols that caught the national imagination. The most powerful was the Hakenkreuz (hooked cross), set in a circle and inscribed on a banner. "In red," he proclaimed, "we see the social idea of the movement, in white the nationalist idea, in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan...
...illustrate your story on the rise of racism on U.S. campuses ((EDUCATION, April 6)), you used a poster from Northern Illinois University showing a swastika, to which someone had added the Greek letters of Sigma Chi. The fraternity was in no way responsible for the poster or the Greek letters on it. Members cooperated with the university administration and the black students' organization in dealing with the related tense situation and even offered a reward for the identification of the creators of the poster...
...pickup truck yelled slurs at blacks attending a speech by the Rev. Jesse Jackson; an unauthorized N.I.U. student magazine printed sick poetry ("O.K.,/ Look nigger,/ We are white./ White is supreme./ Jesus was white./ God is white./ All of our Presidents have been white./ Thank you God"); and swastika-decorated flyers saying NIGGERS GET OUT appeared in campus buses...
Would Harvard's Jewish community stand by if a swastika were being displayed in someone's window? This is not a trite parallel. Both symbols stand for a hatred and violence that has not died...