The Hitlerite Emblem

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 June 1931, Page 6

The Hitlerite Emblem

HISTORY OF THE SWASTIKA

ORIGINATED IN INDIA Just at the moment when Herr Adolph Hitler’s organ announces that 100,000 new recruits, are received each week into the ranks of the National Socialists, and therewith become entitled to wear the swastika emblem on their sleeves, a French professor comes out with a learned booklet On the meaning of the swastika or hooked cross (hakOncreuz). It appears that Sign originated in India. If the .hooks, of the cross Were turned to the right, swastika was an emblem of life-giver. When turned to left,' it. had reference to the of shadows and the goddess'i.ofrri thOf underworld, where the departed spirits sojourned. With other peoples' thO-right-turned swastika was the emblem of masculinity, and when turned th®other way of femininity:' Statues Of the goddess Astarte, found' in ''Syria,' had that lady fmf-rked v with d hakencreun on the abdomen. Its real .end. original hOweyer, remains. a matter of doubt, i|e savant who has made it the object rif S'

study. However far back wo go. into the religions history of India, wO' always find, the swastika. , ;

The professor does not go into the reasons which made Hitler adopt this ancient token as an honoured symbol among his Teutonic Fascist!. But the reasons Ore not far to seek. The swastika, whatever it means, came from India. The saine India is also the cradle of the Aryan race, or the IndoGermanio subdivision of the human race. The most outstanding and most virile representatives of this race are the blue-eyed blonde Nordics, whom,' Herr Hitler considers the salt of the earth and the cream of mankind. Let the weak-kneed Latins march .undertheir Galilean cross, the Slavs under a Byzantine cruciform, the Semites under {hfe Star,’.of David and the Crescent; % Tehtoris Save their Owh toArk: They (don’t need Jo.borrow from other weaker brethren, or ■ march under false colours* ■bo to' speak. They have‘their ancient Aryan emblem, the hooked cross, das hakencreuz. >

lit is 'worn oh thei left sleeve, so that 'may 'hnow 1 a real Teuton when hh bees hnd, 'wJSSfi'VoUld otherwise be A- those Of Prussia---