In Christianity, the swastika is used as a hooked version of the Christian Cross, the symbol of Christ's victory over death. Some Christian churches built in the Romanesque and Gothic eras are decorated with swastikas, carrying over earlier Roman designs.

2021年8月17日 · And, of course, the swastika (or the similar-looking hakenkreuz or hooked cross) is also a symbol of hate, embodying painful and traumatic memories of the Third Reich. The symbol of Nazism,...

2014年10月23日 · The black straight-armed hakenkreuz (hooked cross) on the distinctive white circle and red background of the Nazi flag would become the most hated symbol of the 20th Century, inextricably...

2024年9月24日 · As the swastika became more and more intertwined with German nationalism, Adolf Hitler ’s influence grew—and he adopted the hooked cross as the Nazi party symbol in 1920.

2020年7月23日 · Some authors claim that it was instead a hooked cross (hakenkreuz). Hitler’s Mein Kampf contained no usage of the word “swastika” in an attempt to differentiate the Nazi Party from swastika iterations in Christianity. By 1933, the Nazi swastika flag was flown side by side with the old German Imperial flag of black, white, and red.

2017年8月7日 · The word swastika comes from the Sanskrit svastika, which means “good fortune” or “well-being." The motif (a hooked cross) appears to have first been used in Eurasia, as early as 7000 years ago, perhaps representing the movement of the sun through the sky. To this day, it is a sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Odinism.

One way that they have tried to reestablish their symbol as one of peace and good fortune is to try to encourage use its name in German, Hakenkreuz (hooked cross), when writing about the Nazis' version of it.

2016年9月24日 · Hitler had a convenient but spurious reason for choosing the Hakenkreuz or hooked cross. It had been used by the Aryan nomads of India in the Second Millennium B.C. In Nazi theory, the Aryans were the Germans ancestors, and Hitler concluded that the swastika had been ‘eternally anti-Semitic.’

2020年7月26日 · The Hakenkreuz (hooked cross) symbol of Nazi Germany tarnished the swastika, perhaps beyond repair

The spread of Buddhism religion which held the hooked cross ‘swastika’ as a holy symbol, led to the emergence of swastika in China and Japan as symbol of prosperity.