Re: The word "swastika" was mistranslated & created the "swastika myth"

From: Harlan Messinger (hmessinger.removethis_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:02:22 -0500

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
>>rexy@ij.net wrote:
>>
>>>The word "swastika" was a misleading translation of "hakenkreuze." The
>>>obvious translation should have been "hooked cross."
>>
>>The name of that shape in English is "swastika", so "swastika" is the
>>correct translation for any term in any language that refers to that shape.
>>
>> > The monstrous
>>
>>>National Socialist German Workers' Party always used the word
>>>"hakenkreuze" and never used the word "swastika" and there is not
>>>evidence they even knew the latter term.
>>
>>What do you think is remarkable about that? The Germans didn't call it
>>"swastika" because they spoke German, not English, and therefore used
>>the German term for that shape, just as we English speakers continue to
>>use the English term for it.
>
> The Nazi swastika is a mirror image of the Indian swastika.

Is an oval an oval only when it's oriented a certain way? Is the mirror
image of an S-curve not an S-curve? I'm unfamiliar with the notion that
a shape is no longer the same shape when you turn it over.

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