@martinw-48 wrote:
Joz, what was so controversial about that car.
I don't know that driver myself
Tobacco advertising
from the link: Adolf Hitler was certainly not the first to use the symbol it is as old as Hinduism.
The only planes youy will see with a swastika on it is an american or british plane pre 1939.
The wehrmacht used this
from the link"
"Coca-Cola used it. Carlsberg used it on their beer bottles. The Boy Scouts adopted it and the Girls' Club of America called their magazine Swastika. They would even send out swastika badges to their young readers as a prize for selling copies of the magazine," he says.
It was used by American military units during World War One and it could be seen on RAF planes as late as 1939. Most of these benign uses came to a halt in the 1930s as the Nazis rose to power in Germany.
The Nazi use of the swastika stems from the work of 19th Century German scholars translating old Indian texts, who noticed similarities between their own language and Sanskrit. They concluded that Indians and Germans must have had a shared ancestry and imagined a race of white god-like warriors they called Aryans.
This is the floor of Customs House near circular quay . When they renovated it recently they considered removing the whole area but in the end it stayed. quote
"During recent renovations there was debate about whether the fylfot should be removed. The City’s architects and historians felt it had a place in the narrative of the building.
It was originally intended as a symbolic welcome for those entering the ‘front door’ of Sydney. We recognise these symbols may offend some visitors, but hope they will be read in the context of their original intention"
https://www.sydneycustomshouse.com.au/discover/the-house
