Does the Hindu symbol swisthik and hitler have any relation?

Question

the Hindu symbol swisthik resembles the Hitlers symbol too
did Hitler use this information from India, or was he a follower of Hinduism ? what is the relation or just a coincidence.

Answer 1

Hitler used the symbol, believing Germans were descended from the Aryan race, who lived in northern India. he even sent scores of doctors out to Aryan people to measure them and show that they were "pure" (never mind that they looked nothing like the "ideal" German). He was fascinated with the occult, and seized on the swastika as a symbol of power.

Answer 2

I read lots of history, coz I am interested. I’ve read a bit about Hitler and his regime. Recently there was a program on NatGeo, about a guy, who is doing some research on Hitlers last days. He went to KGB museum, to see the remains of Hitler– his pistol, cigarette box, the teeth, it seems Hitler had golden teeth and gums. Hitler got it done that way, coz he did not want to visit the dentist too often, and wanted a permanent solution. I have wondered how Hitler got to use the Swastika which is a Hindu religious symbol for his Nazi regime. The swastika was employed by various American Indian tribes, the Navahos in particular, for whom it was a sort of good luck sign. For some other tribes, it was a representation of the four directions, and embodied the concept that the sacred place of human beings is at the center of the 4 directions. The Swastika can be found in all Ganesha pictures..with ‘Shubh Labh’ written along. It is the symbol of prosperity. The Swastika is used widely throughout the world even today, by Hindus, Buddhists and the Jains. What does it symbolize ? The most important thing of course, the Sun. It depicts the sun circling through the sky. It basically was the Good Luck or Sun symbol known as the Wheel of life. This one is about Hitlers connection to it. I did a bit research to know how Hitler chose the Swastika for this symbol and here is the story. In Europe, in 1870, the German Archeologist Heinrich Schliemann, was digging. That’s what archeologists do. He was digging up Troy and Mycenae (I am sure you remember these places, from Brad Pitt starrer – Troy ). He dug out many things that had Swastika symbol on them. Heinrich was not a racist, but he popularized the symbol in his books and writings, stating that it was the symbol of the Aryans. Long before Hitler – the fanatical Aryan supremacist – Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels – used the Swastika symbol for this cult in 1907. But, but, but, the German Nazis did not call it Swastika. They called it Hakenfreuz ie Hook – Cross or Thorshamarr or The hammer of Thor. For the Germans also, it depicted the Suns movement, and the Wheel of life. They used the symbol in both clockwise – Doesil and the counterclockwise – Widdershins directions, but both meant the same, and not opposites. The Nazi’s used the Clock wise Swastika, ie the Doesil Thorshamarr. Many anti-semitic and militarist groups adopted the symbol around 1920s. Hitler is supposed to have been influenced by Jorg Lanz and adopted the symbol around the same time. It is one of the most effective political symbols ever devised.

Answer 3

By the summer of 1920 theswastika was commonly used in Germany as the official symbol of the Nazi (short for Hitler's Nazional- socialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) [National Socialist German Workers' Party]) party. Twenty five years later it became a symbol of shame and defeat for Germany. After its adoption by the Nazis, few other symbols in the history of mankind have become so widely associated with evil.

Most authors agree that it was Hitler himself who chose the swastika as a symbol of his Nazi movement. There is no agreement, however, about who influenced him into making such decision.

In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler claimed that the form in which the Nazis used the swastika [1] was based on a design by Dr. Friedrich Krohn, a dentist who had belonged to several Völkisch [2] groups, including the Germanen Order. [3]

Krohn, a dentist from Starnberg, submitted his design of a flag which had been used at the founding meeting of his own party local: a swastika against a black-white-red background. The swastika, for long time a symbol of the Teutonic Knights, had been in use by Lanz von Liebenfels, [4] the Thule Society [5] and a number of Freikorps units.

Hitler gives his own account: "Actually, a dentist fromStarnberg did deliver a design that was not bad after all, and, incidentally, was quite close to my own, having only the one fault that a swastika with curved legs was composed into a white disk." [6]

Krohn knew that the Buddhist destroverse or clockwise swastika symbolized good fortune and well being, and made his design accordingly, with the swastika's legs pointing to the left. [7]

The majority of the Nazi leaders accepted Krohn's design, but Hitler insisted on a sinistroverse or anti-clockwise one and changed the design accordingly, similar to the one on the right. [8]

Answer 4

The swastika was used by many different people throughout the world down through history. The Native Americans used a version of it which appears as a mirror image of the one that the Nazis used. As for Hitler believeing in Hinduism, that's totally off base. Hitler believed in one thing...His own invincibility and the total superiority of the Aryan German. He was fascinated by mysticism of many kinds and even went so far as to have his propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels circulate flyers that purported to prove that the French "prophet" Nostredamus predicted that Germany would not only win WWII but would also one day rule the world...guess we see how that worked out, huh?

Answer 5

Hitler believed that the so called "aryan master race" originated in the Hindu Kush region. That is why he decided to use the Hindu swastika image as the symbol of The National Socialist German Worker's Party.

Answer 6

It is a widely-used symbol in Dharmic religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism). Hindus often decorate the swastika with a dot in each quadrant. In India, it is common enough to be a part of several Devanagari fonts. It is also a symbol in the modern unicode. It is often imprinted on religious texts, marriage invitations, decorations etc. It is used to mark religious flags in Jainism and to mark Buddhist temples in Asia.

Archaeological evidence of swastika shaped ornaments goes back to the Neolithic period. In 1920 the swastika was appropriated as a Nazi symbol, and has since then become a controversial motif. In the Western world, it is this usage as a symbol of Nazism that is most familiar, and this political association has largely eclipsed its historical status in the East.In the wake of widespread popular usage, the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) formally adopted the swastika (in German: Hakenkreuz (hooked cross)) in 1920. This was used on the party's flag (right), badge, and armband. It had also been used unofficially by the NSDAP and its predecessor, the German Workers Party, Deutsche Arbeiterpartei When Hitler created a flag for the Nazi party, he sought to incorporate both the swastika and "those revered colors expressive of our homage to the glorious past and which once brought so much honor to the German nation" (red, white, and black were the colors of the flag of the old German Empire). He also stated that "As National Socialists, we see our program in our flag. In red we see the social idea of the movement, in white the nationalistic idea, in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work, which as such always has been and always will be anti-Semitic." (Mein Kampf).[32]

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.[

Answer 7

Hitler admired the Aryan race from somewhere around the Persian Gulf territories.

The sacred writings of the Hindu are recorded in Sanskrit. "Sans" means "without" in old French. "skrik", is Dutch for "fear" - the Germans prefer the word "shrek", a slight change in pronounciation. So Sanskrit is the script of the people without fear.

Sanskrit is based on the Iranian language of ancient Persians, which is based on ancient Shemetic language.

It seems the Indians were ruled over by a King called Prester John of Kalkut. The Latvian people were said to be engaged to be married. They sang "Ligo" songs, which in the Hebrew means "take my hand". They held an annual festival to wait the arrival of the Prince.

Something happened. The Prince never came. They are still singing the traditional songs, and waiting for the Prince to come to this day.

Answer 8

Have you read that book, I think it's called "The Bunker."?

That's the place where Hitler and his closest friends and wife (Was it Eva Braun?) died when both the Russians and the Allies were closing in.

I used to know so much about the Swastica, about Hitler, and everything about them - Now, I know zip. But everyone above me had been so informative, so no need to tire your eyes over this. I simply answered so I can go back to their answers and refresh my memory. To mark this place.

But this I can tell you. That symbol meant ZIP too, to Hitler and his supermen, when their days were numbered in the Bunker.

Answer 9

In ancient Hindi, the word means "goodness" from the root swazti "good"

It is one of the most ancient symbols in Human pictographic records.

However, it has become co-opted by some less savory groups for their own purposes, such as the Nazi use of the symbol.