why hitlar use the hindus holly sign (swastik)? Can there is any similarity between hindus and germans?

Answer 1

No there is no similarity. He probably picked it because it looked cool and every group needs some sort of icon or symbol.

Answer 2

acid zeb has got pretty much of the story. There was an occult and political society in Germany before the First World War called the Thule Society that used a version of the swastika and they seem to have adopted it from India specifically. Hitler was a reader of occult magazines published by an ex-monk who was associated with this society. That was before the First World War which started in 1914. There was also a connection through the Theosophical Society.

During the First World War superstitious soldiers on both sides took to wearing talismans and good-luck charms. One popular charm on the German side at least was a version of the swastika. Hitler served throughout that war. He would have known about the swastika from that.

It has been said that the Thule Society was instrumental in starting the Nazi Party even before Hitler joined it.

The Nazis used the swastika tilted at 45 degrees and square.

The fact is that northern Indians particularly and the people who occupied north westen Europe do have an ancient relationship. Nearly all old European languages are related, eg German, Latin, Celtic, this was recognised 2050 years ago by Julius Caesar. 100 or so years ago British scholars spotted many similarities beween Indian languages and European languages. This implies an distant relationship between the peoples. They were called Indo-Aryan. The European branches included Celts, Germans, Latins and probably the Greeks as well. The English are about three quarters Celtic and about a quarter German with bits of all other peoples thrown in.

About the only people in Western Europe with no relationship to the rest of Europe are the Basques and the Finns. Eastern Europe has been invaded from central Asia many times by Slavs, Magyars and Turks and their languages have little or no connection to the old Indo-Aryan.

Answer 3

That aprticular symbol appears in many cultures across the globe. Greece, India, China, Europe, Africa,Tibet, America. And in all those it was a representation of luck and of the power of the sun. There was no similarity between the Germans and the Hindu's and the symbol predated either culture's contact with any other culture that used it. The symbol has been referred to as having been a universal archetypal symbol, one that is somehow connected to the deepest levels of the human subconscious. (Reference Carl Jung for more on that idea)

Hitler used the symbol becasue of its being and early Germanic symbol representative of the sun as a solar wheel as well as having a connection to the Norse Thunder God Thor. It's use by any other cultrue was, if of any importance at all, was secondary at best. Hitler himself believed that there was some connection with the Tibetans (who also used the symbol) on a spiritual level and that using it would, besides invoke the powers of the ancestral gods of Germany, be a connection to the spiritual powers of the Tibetans as well.

Answer 4

In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler wrote:

"I myself, meanwhile, after innumerable attempts, had laid down a final form; a flag with a red background, a white disk, and a black swastika in the middle. After long trials I also found a definite proportion between the size of the flag and the size of the white disk, as well as the shape and thickness of the swastika."

(Red, white, and black were the colors of the flag of the old German Empire.)

The use of the swastika was associated by Nazi theorists with their conjecture of Aryan cultural descent of the German people. Following the Nordicist version of the Aryan invasion theory, the Nazis claimed that the early Aryans of India, from whose Vedic tradition the swastika sprang, were the prototypical white invaders. It was also widely believed that the Indian caste system had originated as a means to avoid racial mixing.[citation needed] The concept of Racial purity was an ideology central to Nazism though it is now considered unscientific. For Rosenberg, the Aryans of India were both a model to be imitated and a warning of the dangers of the spiritual and racial "confusion" that, he believed, arose from the close proximity of races.

Answer 5

There is zero connection between Nazism and Hinduism. I have been in Asia and also seen swastikas on the necks of Buddha statues. The swastika is a common symbol that was used in many cultures and has had many meanings. To my knowledge Hitler was the first to make it represent something bad. He took the symbol from the ancient European religion that worshiped Odin. To the Vikings the swastika was a sun symbol.

Answer 6

The swastika, being a relatively simple geometrical design (two crossed lines with a perpendicular line at each end of a line), can be found in a large number of cultures from the Neolithic Period onwards. Since a lot of swastica ornaments can be found in cultures belonging to the Indo-European language family, some theorists and mysticists connected it with the late-19th century idea of a community of "Aryan" peoples (again, "Aryan" not understood in a theoretically sound sense, but in a romantic-ideological one). Hitler borrowed the swastika as symbol for his ideology from a group of mystic nutcases around an Austrian runanway monk who called himself with a fake nobility title "Georg Lanz von Liebenfels" as well as from the no less nutty "Thule-Society".

Answer 7

Tried to find site no luck...but researched this before.
In Asia it is a sign of Good Fortune or Good Luck
It is also a symbol used in many other cultures with basicly
the same meaning. It is used by various religous groups.
Hitler used it to bring Good Fortune to his troops.
But my understanding is Hitler pointed his the opposite way of the Asian version to make it his own.

Answer 8

Actually it stems from the runic alphabet. The ss used as an insignia for the ss was two sigel runes. Superimpose the two over each other and then there ya go, the swastic. The sigel rune was thought of as a spiritual symbol of holy offensive power.

Answer 9

I visited India and visited a Buddha shrine...as i left the temple you can imagine my surprise when, as i glanced over my shoulder, I saw Buddha giving a seig heil (Nazi) salute to some Hindus.....very strange that!!

There's a lot more bratwurst on the Indian subcontinent than I had cared to imagine too!!

Answer 10

Yes lots of similarities......... both cultures are known for their one-pointed thirst for knowledge.

Germans were the first nation outside India to understand the hidden depths of Indian scriptures like Veda and Upanisads. Much German writing and art are founded on Vedic Hindu philosophy. Hitler engaged scholars to interprete the Vedas.

But he used Svastika in the wrong way - by rotating it 45 degrees on its axis. Svastika with correct orientation is supposed to bring good fortune, while its incorrect spatial orientation can bring disaster....... and that is what happened to Hitler.....

Answer 11

Hitler was into a lot of occult stuff. He had some common ground with a lot of religions. But it was also a common Aryan symbol. It was picked for largely aesthetic reasons.