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From: LANGSDORFJE96%CS36@cadetmail.usafa.af.mil (JOHN E. LANGSDORF)
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Subject: Re: REQUEST: Swastika
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 20:27:57 GMT
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In article <2oi2b4$c4r@usenet.rpi.edu> bresld@goya.its.rpi.edu (        DJ) writes:


>This is my first post on this subject, so don't get me confused with any
>of the previous posters.  I just want to say that there are two kinds
>of swastikas.  Personally, I like the way they look, but I feel that
>swastikas have been ruined by the obvious dark past of one type of swastika.

>The _original_ type was for an indian tribe of North America.
>The second was for the Nazis in Germany.

>The difference between the two is that the "tips" are bent different ways.
>I don't remember which way for each, but one's to the right, one's to the
>left, obviously.

Bent to the right is Nazi, bent to the left is Indian.  Also, the Nazis
rotated it 45 degrees.

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