Word: swastika
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Last week, German newspapers burst forth with a photograph of a U. S. officer inspecting a detachment of troops. On the left shoulders of their uniforms were swastikas. Good Nazis were encouraged to make typical Nazi deductions from the captions, one of which reads: "The swastika is a badge of honor in the American Army." No Nazi editor bothered to print easily obtainable explanations...
...picture showed a pirt of the 45th Division of the National Guard, which has headquarters at Oklahoma City, maintains units in Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. In August 1924, the division, at the suggestion of the Arizona department, adopted as its insignia an old Navajo Indian emblem, a swastika.* In August 1924, Adolf Hitler was in Cell No. 7, Landsberg Fortress, near Munich, serving time for his "beer-hall Putsch," eleven years away from making the swastika the centre of the German national flag...
...swastika developed independently as a symbol of good and bad luck in many cultures...
...weather has arrived. The Pope was represented as displeased because the Führer had not requested an audience. To pilgrims at Castel Gandolfo the Holy Father said that it was sad that "on the feast day of the Holy Cross of Christ the banners of another cross [the swastika], which certainly is not that of Christ, should have been hoisted in Rome." Next day the Vatican Museum was closed, prelates explaining that the Vatican would not welcome the multitudes of swastika-wearing German tourists who might want to kill time while Hitler and Mussolini were in Naples...
...Reichstag speech in which Hitler pooled all Germans everywhere into one ocean of German blood. He ended by defying openly for the first time the Czechoslovak statute which forbids the existence of a Nazi Party-it has hitherto existed in Czechoslovakia sub rosa, has not dared to use the swastika Nazi symbol. Daring the Government to enforce the law, Führer Henlein climaxed: "Naziism is the guiding principle of our Party, the same as it is for all Germans throughout the world! It is unbearable for us if, in the future, we are persecuted because of our confession...