RE: {PBJFlorida} FW: HinduAssociationUSA BBC Documentary: The Story of the Swastika - How Hitler hijacked the swastika

Thank you for sending Abhinav! This is so informative and educational. Perversion of sacred and meaningful symbols needs to be rectified. It is horrible what Hitler and the Nazis did to the symbol of the Swastika.
 
Best Regards,
Miguel
 

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From: abhinavd45@hotmail.com
To: abhinavd45@hotmail.com
Subject: {PBJFlorida} FW: HinduAssociationUSA BBC Documentary: The Story of the Swastika - How Hitler hijacked the swastika
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 14:14:25 -0400

 

BBC Documentary: The Story of the Swastika

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocf8Nlq5Xiw 

LONDON, ENGLAND, May 13, 2014 (BBC): At last, the BBC has produced an excellent video explaining how Hitler hijacked the swastika--a symbol of auspiciousness used by ancient cultures worldwide and held sacred by Hindus--and distorted its meaning so that the Western world now regards it with fear and loathing, as a symbol of hatred and genocide. Footage of Nazi Germany is contrasted with the swastika's uses and significance in Hindu culture and religious observances. Although the narrator doubts we can ever effect a complete recovery (even saying that Hitler "changed the perception of the swastika in the West forever"), the video ends on a very positive note, hypothesizing the day when each child's early exposure to the swastika will be in terms of its traditional, benevolent uses and meanings--and the later knowledge of Hitler's misuse of it will be met with the same sense of sock, horror and outrage that Hindus themselves feel. "And if we can get to that point, then Hitler will have finally been defeated." 

 

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